Medical & Healthcare Law

Federal regulations generally start with an act of Congress, and are the means by which statutes are implemented and many specific requirements are...

This book is a compilation of CRS reports on abortion in the United States. The first chapter discusses the way legislation seeking to limit/ban ab...

A powerful and path-breaking expose of Americas Medical Industrial Complexthe network of mutually beneficial relationships between big business, ac...

Community Care and the Law is the pre-eminent legal text on adult social care law. Its contributors are leading experts in the field and the lead a...

Respect for autonomy has become a fundamental principle in human research ethics. Nonetheless, this principle and the associated process of obtaini...

Over the past decades, public trust in medical professionals has steadily declined. This decline of trust and its replacement by ever tighter regul...

Hippocrates famously advised doctors 'it is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has'. Yet 2,500 yea...

An essential book for all those who conduct animal-based research or are involved in education and training, as well as regulators, supporters, and...

This book provides a review on the supply and demand projections and federal planning efforts in the U.S. health care workforce, which includes pri...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a critical responsibility to advance the connectivity of electronic health information a...

In March 2010, the 111th Congress passed health reform legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). ACA increases access to h...