Social Law

Federal regulations generally start with an act of Congress, and are the means by which statutes are implemented and many specific requirements are...

This book is a compilation of CRS reports on abortion in the United States. The first chapter discusses the way legislation seeking to limit/ban ab...

A powerful and path-breaking expose of Americas Medical Industrial Complexthe network of mutually beneficial relationships between big business, ac...

Respect for autonomy has become a fundamental principle in human research ethics. Nonetheless, this principle and the associated process of obtaini...

Over the past decades, public trust in medical professionals has steadily declined. This decline of trust and its replacement by ever tighter regul...

REACH and the Environmental Regulation of Nanotechnology presents a thorough and comprehensive legal analysis on the status of nanoscale chemicals ...

How sales representatives from Big Pharma and other healthcare companies circumvent public and regulatory scrutiny by forging relationships with nu...

Hippocrates famously advised doctors 'it is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has'. Yet 2,500 yea...

An essential book for all those who conduct animal-based research or are involved in education and training, as well as regulators, supporters, and...

This book provides a review on the supply and demand projections and federal planning efforts in the U.S. health care workforce, which includes pri...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a critical responsibility to advance the connectivity of electronic health information a...

In March 2010, the 111th Congress passed health reform legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). ACA increases access to h...

This eminently relevant and thoroughly entertaining book reminds us that understanding more about health care helps us understand the larger world ...

A concise history of how American law has shaped-and been shaped by-the experience of contagion, taking us from the smallpox outbreaks of the colo...

A groundbreaking analysis of how the genomic revolution is transforming American society and creating new social divisions-some along racial lines-...

This book provides an overview of the voluntary performance standard document for bomb suits for use by certified public safety bomb technicians wh...

Principles of Medical Law is the leading practitioner text in its field. Now in its fourth edition, it provides a comprehensive and scholarly accou...

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 established a voluntary, outpatient prescription drug benefit under Medi...

The Robert T Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (the Stafford Act) authorises the President to issue major disaster or emergency...