Public Health & Safety Law

This casebook covers contemporary issues in bioethics ranging from reproductive choice to decision making about death. It teaches legal doctrine th...

Practicing Bioethics Law provides basic readings in the field of bioethics law, including court cases, statutes, administrative regulations, briefs...

This book offers a framework for studying modern quality approaches, including more expansive definitions of quality in health care, patient safety...

Roughly 20-25 cents out of every dollar spent by American consumers is for a product regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The agency...

This pioneering casebook presents a thorough exploration of the rapidly evolving and complex area of marijuana law. Current through the end of 2018...

Public policy responses to escalating medical costs and constrained access pose fundamental challenges to health care law. Profound medical advance...

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

A comprehensive assessment of real gun reform legislation with recommendations for better design, implementation and enforcement A month after the ...

This text is the first of its kind to address the various legal issues facing the emergency medical service. Readers will find a myriad of legal is...

While sex work has long been controversial, it has become even more contested over the past decade as laws, policies, and enforcement practices hav...

Two worlds that in academia remain largely separated are brought together in this book in a unique way; the world of food safety law and the world ...

Food e-commerce is a fast-developing market. Regrettably, the number of products exchanged on the web that may be harmful to consumers is also stea...

Also available as E-book see eu-food-law-handbook For more information about the e-book, please contact Sales. The twenty-first century has witne...

While sex work has long been controversial, it has become even more contested over the past decade as laws, policies, and enforcement practices hav...

What do seat belts, life jackets and anti-jack knife technology have in common? They were all the subjects of campaigns run by the British Safety C...

Fire Safety Law provides building-owners, managers, individual leaseholders, mortgage-lenders, landlords, and anyone involved in the purchase or sa...

Health care reform has been a dominant theme in public discourse for decades now. The passage of the Affordable Care Act was a major milestone, but...

Do doctors fix patients? Or do they heal them? For all of modern medicines many successes, discontent with the quality of patient care has combined...

Drugs are pervasive in our everyday lives across cultures around the world. At the same time, they present one of the thorniest problems of twenty-...

Climate Change, Public Health, and the Law provides the first comprehensive explication of the dynamic interactions between climate change, public ...

Today, scientists are using CRISPR/Cas9 and other molecular editing tools to alter human gametes and embryos, a practice known as human germline mo...

A firsthand look at how policies and legal doctrines affect families living in low-income urban neighborhoods.Winner of the Anna Julia Cooper &...

As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, stark social inequalities have increasingly been revealed and, in many cases, exacerbated by the global heal...

Health and safety legislation places significant responsibilities on employers and managers to protect the health and safety of their workers, but ...

Die Anforderung im medizinischen Alltag rechtlich relevante Sachverhalte, etwa nach Gewalt im häuslichen Umfeld zu erkennen und zeitgemäß richtig z...

Electrical Safety and the Law describes the hazards and risks from the use of electricity, explaining with the help of case studies and accident st...