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...

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

An understanding of the law and the way in which it impacts upon roles, responsibilities and care is a vital component in everyday healthcare. The ...

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

Originally published in Spanish in 2017 by Libreria Bosch, Barcelona, the Atlas of Forensic and Criminal Psychology is a one-of-kind book made avai...

Originally published in Spanish in 2017 by Libreria Bosch, Barcelona, the Atlas of Forensic and Criminal Psychology is a one-of-kind book made avai...

Death Investigation: A Field Guide, Second Edition is updated and expanded to include a chronological analysis of the death scene investigative pro...

Surrogacy presents particularly complex questions for human rights law and theory. This book provides a unique and insightful examination into the ...

In order for the information society to realise its full potential, personal data has to be disclosed, used and often shared. This book explores th...