Medical & Healthcare Law

This book explores the ethical and governance concerns of stem cell technology, taking a comparative approach between countries of differing socio-...

This book is an essential resource to understanding the intersection of medical genetics and law. In a unique approach, it provides an overview on ...

In an age of digital globalization, navigating the complex landscape of international health data transfers presents significant challenges. This a...

This book brings together contributions from twenty-three world-leading scholars and commentators that address a range of contemporary and pressing...

Health and healthcare are vitally important to all of us, and academic interest in the law regulating health has, over the last 50 years, become an...

Faced with evolving trade and health dynamics, this book presents a historical, conceptual, and empirical examination of public health and medical ...

This book introduces experiential knowledge of the intersectionality of disability, sexuality, and gender equality issues. Scholars and disabled pe...

Is it lawful for a doctor to give a patient life-shortening pain relief? Can treatment be lawfully provided to a child under 16 on the basis of her...

This book presents a comprehensive review of ethical issues arising in psychiatric care and research. Compared to the first edition, ten of the 40 ...

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

International case-studies on regulation and science collaboration show how competition and economic pressures on the national regulators of biomed...

International case-studies on regulation and science collaboration show how competition and economic pressures on the national regulators of biomed...

Begutachtungen von Menschen mit psychischen Störungen sind anspruchsvoll und gelten als schwierig. Das vorliegende Standardwerk bietet deshalb eine...

Advances in modern biotechnology have produced profound and far-reaching implications for the relationship between humans, animals and the environm...

The Data Protection and Medical Research in Europe: PRIVIREAL series focuses on the 'Privacy in Research Ethics and Law' EC-funded project examinin...

This book investigates how and why the criminal law differentiates between different types of body alterations, with particular reference to how th...

Where do a doctor's responsibilities lie in communicating diagnostic and predictive genetic information to a patient's family members? On the one h...

Health law and policy in Nigeria is an evolving and complex field of law, spanning a broad legal landscape and drawn from various sources. In addr...

This title was first published in 2002.This book offers an intriguing examination of the law concerning liability for psychiatric injury suffered b...

Partnerships between the public and private sectors are an increasingly accepted method to deal with pressing global issues, such as those relating...

This title was first published in 2001. This work is a uniquely multi-disciplinary contribution to the existing bioethical literature on the topic ...

This title was first published in 2002.The wide range of essays contained within this volume present contemporary thinking on the legal and ethical...

This title was first published in 2001: Ethical thinking about medical decision-making has roots deep in history. This collection of contemporary e...

This book was originally published in 1999. When one or more essential organs failed, the consequence used to be death. However, conventional medic...

First published in 1997, this volume explores how we live in a society which is developing beyond human experience and comprehension fast. Advance...

We are all the result of gestation: the process of becoming before birth. The very nature of human gestation, however, has shifted and will continu...

Health rights litigation is still an emerging phenomenon in Africa, despite the constitutions of many African countries having provisions to advanc...

It is generally accepted in legal and bioethical discourse that the patient has a right to self-determination. In practice though, this is often no...

This book examines the relationship between intellectual property in pharmaceuticals and access to medicines from a human rights perspective, with ...

This book explores the human rights consequences of recent and ongoing revisions of mental health legislation in England and Ireland. Presenting a ...

EU Health Systems and Distributive Justice uses theories of distributive justice to examine tensions created by the application of the Internal Mar...

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

First Published in 2004: Effective Expert Witnessing, Fourth Edition broadens the scope of previous editions by featuring case studies and examples...