Medicolegal Issues

The concept of deviance is complex, given that norms vary considerably across groups, times, and places. Society tends to primarily recognize tradi...

Text, Cases and Materials on Medical Law and Ethics presents a valuable collection of materials relating to often controversial areas of the law. C...

Trusted for over 40 years for its authoritative account of medical law, this text provides the right balance between in-depth legal coverage and an...

In this book, Susanne Lundin explores the murky world of organ trade. She tracks exploited farm workers in Moldova, prosecutors in Israel and surge...

In disease cluster communities across the country, environmental contamination from local industries is often suspected as a source of disease. But...

Surgeons have a duty to provide accurate information before asking for consent for surgery, and patients are increasingly interested in obtaining a...

Reproductive donation is the most contentious area of assisted reproduction. Even within Europe there are wide variations in what is permitted in e...

The field of refugee family research and intervention forms a growing field of scientific study, focussing on the refugee family as the central nic...

Determining the cause of death in children and young adults can pose considerable challenges. Professor Byard provides for the first time a complet...

Introduces key concepts and debates in health humanities and the health professions. Keywords for Health Humanities provides a rich, interdisciplin...

Addressing global health is one of the largest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, however, this task is becoming even more formidable ...

Sudden unexpected infant death, including sudden infant death syndrome, is the leading cause of death in infants one month to one year of age, in t...

There is an increasing demand for gestational surrogacy in current reproductive medicine practice. Infertile couples often engage overseas surrogat...

Introduces key concepts and debates in health humanities and the health professions. Keywords for Health Humanities provides a rich, interdisciplin...

What Was Your First Memory of Race?This opening question is the heart and soul of Room at the Table. The word equity is thrown around in multiple m...

Reliable source on medical liability law. Written by experts in the field, this Nutshell offers insight on establishing professional relationships ...

Explores the historical development and severe ramifications of America's strict abortion regulations.Nearly one in four women in the United States...

Public health activity, and the states public health responsibilities to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy, can only be achieved...

Explores human dignity and care in the face of disease and disability.Complex contemporary experiences with disease, death, and disability in the U...

The work draws together a rich tapestry of material across many different disciplines, covering the crucial relationship between medicine and law f...

Discover the hidden forces that shaped one of the most significant health care reforms in US history.In A Government of Insiders, William Genieys t...

A groundbreaking look at the complex relationship between the built environment and population health in small-town America.The links between urban...

The COVID pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacer...

Basics of the U.S. Health Care System provides a broad introduction to the workings of the health care system in the US. Engaging and activities-or...

This concise book provides readers with practical guidance to help them to both avoid errors and develop robust processes to protect themselves and...

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

Life care planning is an advanced collaborative case management specialty practice focused on assessing, evaluating, coordinating, consulting, plan...

Academic global health programs are proliferating, and global health partnerships between North American academic institutions and institutions in ...

In Righting Health Policy, D. Robert MacDougall argues that bioethics needs but does not have adequate tools for justifying law and policy. Bioethi...

Why human rights dont work In The Effluent Eye, Rosemary J. Jolly argues for the decolonization of human rights, attributing their failure not simp...

Why human rights dont work In The Effluent Eye, Rosemary J. Jolly argues for the decolonization of human rights, attributing their failure not simp...

For decades, manufacturers from around the world relied on asbestos to produce a multitude of fire-retardant products. As use of the mineral became...

In the United States, the right to choose an abortion is the law of the land. But what if a woman continues her pregnancy because she didnt really ...

Abortion Care as Moral Work brings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counselors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists, and...

Advances in new neuroscientific research tools and technologies have not only led to new insight into the processes of the human brain, they have a...

Advances in new neuroscientific research tools and technologies have not only led to new insight into the processes of the human brain, they have a...