Medical & Healthcare Law

Editor of the award-winning site Feministing.com, Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with doctors and ...

Whether there is a public health need for the containment and response to swine flu, or an individual need to access health care across the border ...

This book evaluates some of the most common ethical issues confronted by reproductive endocrinologists, embryologists, and their teams. The authors...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contains several provisions to encourage employer-sponsored health coverage, particularly among smal...

On March 2010, President Obama signed into law a comprehensive health care reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The...

Medicaid is a significant expenditure for the federal government and the states, with total federal outlays of $310 billion in fiscal year 2014. Th...

After heart disease and cancer, the third leading cause of death in the United States is iatrogenic injury (avoidable injury or infection caused by...

This book on Medical Jurisprudence & Clinical Forensic Medicine addresses the evolving nature of law and medicine. It updates the medicolegal (...

Bioethics: Legal and Clinical Case Studies is a case-based introduction to ethical issues in health care. Through seventy-eight compelling scenario...

Transparency is a concept that is becoming increasingly lauded as a solution to a host of problems in the American health care system. Transparency...

Transparency is a concept that is becoming increasingly lauded as a solution to a host of problems in the American health care system. Transparency...

Speaking from and to the growing movement among academics to become involved with 'socially-engaged' work, this volume presents first-person case s...

When the oral history of a medicinal plant as a genetic resource is used to develop a blockbuster drug, how is the contribution of indigenous peopl...

The purpose of this book is to provide practical approaches to designing public reports that make health care performance information clear, meanin...

This book provides mental capacity practitioners with accessible ethical guidance and applicable tools for applying the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2...

Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language Although Roe v. Wade identified ab...

Problems regarding the nature of consent are at the heart of many of today's most pressing issues. For example, the #MeToo movement has underscored...

In pharmaceutical patent law, the problem of lack of policy direction and inappropriate legal framework is widespread - particularly among jurisdic...

The Core Text Series takes the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing a reliable and invaluable guide for students of law at all le...

The true, eye-opening account of how the NHS has been failed and what we can do to save it. The NHS ...

Over the last 50 or 60 years, there has appeared a directional shift in the medical and social culture of the United States. We see it in the news ...