Medicolegal Issues

Throughout the 1800s, opium and cocaine could be easily obtained to treat a range of ailments in Canada. Dependency, when it occurred, was consider...

Income, education, employment, housing, the wider environment, and social supports; far more than the actions of physicians, nurses, and other heal...

This book is a practical, up-to-date synopsis of issues affecting healthcare in the 21st century. The cases are real and practical for practicing p...

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...

This innovative and engaging book argues that because our genetic information is directly linked to the genetic information of others, it is imposs...

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...

In Dr. You: Become Your Own Advocate and Take Charge of Your Health, Lora Miro shares a compelling journey from patient to healthcare pioneer, offe...

Reshaping Health Systems: What Drives Health Care and How You Can Change It illuminates how forces in the health care system (systems factors) impa...

Unsafe abortion remains one of the most neglected sexual and reproductive health problems according to the World Health Organisation. In recent yea...

Forensic DNA Applications: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, Second Edition is fully updated to outline the latest advances in forensic DNA testing...

Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction: An Illustrated Manual and Field Guide provides methodologies to help investigators to think broadly w...

As digital life stories continue to assume more and more significance across a range of institutions, so too does their potential to bring into foc...

Drawing on insights from work in medical history and sociology, this book analyzes changing meanings of personalized medicine over time, from the r...