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Now that prohibitions against stem cell research are relaxing, it is time for the field to move forward with the advances that promise to eliminate so much human suffering. However, it would be naive to ignore the fact that regenerative medicines pose a whole new set of challenges to an industry sector that for decades has geared itself to the development and delivery of traditional pharmaceuticals. Still, significant strides are being made. Unique in its focus, The Delivery of Regenerative Med...

The final volume of four, the authors, all specialists in the areas of the curriculum, consider how the concerns of ethnic groups may be addressed within the framework of the National Curriculum. Despite the indecision surrounding the structure, content, pedagogy and assessment of many components of the primary school curriculum, it remains that the multicultural nature of the population and of schools will develop. These developments and their educational implications must be considered if the...

This comprehensive book provides a detailed survey and practical examination of a wide range of legal and regulatory topics in HealthTech. Combining the insights of leading healthcare experts from around the world, chapters first examine the key characteristics, use cases and regulation in the field, before turning to the development and potential applications of cutting-edge technologies in healthcare. The book also addresses the main issues involved in setting up and running a HealthTech busin...

Alcohol, opiates, cocaine and marijuana, among other drugs, have been used and abused for millennia. Prior to the disease model approach to drug addiction, which posits that addiction is a psychological and biological problem and that sufferers are victims, societies had a workable solution: let people consume what they want, and let informal cultural controls reinforce responsible behavior. Legal sanctions were reserved for any use that affected the safety of others. Blowing Smoke proposes an a...

Regardless of how long you've practiced, the challenges of keeping current never stop. Now there is a source available that can assist you in wading through essential testimony of a neuropsychologist in your personal injury, medical malpractice or workers' compensation cases. Written specifically for attorneys, Neuropsychology of the Attorney is your personal guide through every aspect of the case. This book is the only available resource for assisting you through testimony by a neuropsychologis...

Demystifying the Law: An Introduction for Professionals explains unfamiliar legal concepts in interesting contexts, thus helping you to understand and remember them. It illustrates legal principles using simple examples that anyone can understand. No single book can turn you into a lawyer, but this one can help you decide when you need a lawyer's assistance and help you ask intelligent questions of your lawyer. It can even help keep you out of situations requiring a lawyer. Part I tells you wher...

Diese umfassende und interdisziplinare Bestandsaufnahme zur Medizin- und Bioethik will den Denkanstoss liefern zu einer gemeinsamen politischen, sozialen, rechtlich und naturwissenschaftlich verankerten Verortung des kunftigen Gesundheitswesens. Der Praxisbezug fur das Wohl des Einzelnen steht im Vordergrund. Dabei ergeben sich Spannungsfelder, dramatische wirtschaftsethische Fragen im Verhaltnis von Forschung, Verantwortung und Haftung. Transplantation, Patientenverfugung, Sterben und Tod, Mitt...

Der Band enthalt Beitrage von Philosophen, Juristen und Theologen aus den Niederlanden, Polen, der Slowakischen Republik, Ungarn und Deutschland zu Themen des Medizinrechts und der Medizinethik. Diese Beitrage sind im Rahmen des "Arbeitskreises fur Ethik und Wissenschaftstheorie der Medizin in Ostmitteleuropa" entstanden, der auf einer Kooperationsvereinbarung des Interdisziplinaren Zentrums fur Ethik an der Europa-Universitat Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) und des Instituts fur Geschichte und Ethik...

This book presents a broad overview of the many intersections between health and the environment that lie at the basis of the most crucial environmental health issues, focusing on the responses provided by international and EU law. Consistent with the One Health approach and moving from the relevant international and EU legal frameworks, the book addresses some of the most important issues of environmental health including the traditional, such as pollution of air, water and soil and related foo...

Health Policy: Application for Nurses and Other Health Care Professionals, Third Edition provides an overview of the policy-making process within a variety of settings including academia, clinical practice, communities, and various health care systems. Health Policy takes a comprehensive structural approach to policymaking and provides the necessary tools to engage in health policy formulation. The Third Edition remains an easy-to-read foundational policy book that operationalizes health policy...

AMERICAN CARTEL is an unflinching and deeply documented dive into the culpability of the drug companies behind the staggering death toll of the opioid epidemic. It follows a small band of DEA agents led by Joseph Rannazzisi, a tough-talking New Yorker who had spent a storied thirty years bringing down bad guys; along with a band of lawyers, including West Virginia native Paul Farrell Jr., who fought to hold the drug industry to account in the face of the worst man-made drug epidemic in American...

In the wake of the Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans cases, a wide-ranging international conversation was started regarding alternative thresholds for intervention and the different balances that can be made in weighing up the rights and interests of the child, the parent's rights and responsibilities and the role of medical professionals and the courts. This collection provides a comparative perspective on these issues by bringing together analysis from a range of jurisdictions across Europe, North...

How earnest hippies, frightened parents, suffering patients, and other ordinary Americans went to war over marijuana In the last five years, eight states have legalized recreational marijuana. To many, continued progress seems certain. But pot was on a similar trajectory forty years ago, only to encounter a fierce backlash. In Grass Roots, historian Emily Dufton tells the remarkable story of marijuana's crooked path from acceptance to demonization and back again, and of the thousands of grassro...

First responders confronted by forensic cases are forced to consider the competing concerns of administering proper medical treatment while at the same time safeguarding vital evidence. Forensic Science in Healthcare: Caring for Patients, Preserving the Evidence presents precise on-scene protocol designed to ensure that the actions of the response team provide the necessary care and yet maintain the integrity of the evidence for legal purposes. Following an introduction to forensics, the book ex...

Die Entscheidung des Bundesgerichtshofs zur PID veranlasste den Gesetzgeber dazu, 2011 das ESchG zu novellieren. Die Durchfuhrung einer PID ist nunmehr unter eingeschrankten Voraussetzungen erlaubt. Diese Arbeit versucht die im Bundestag zuvor diskutierten Gesetzesentwurfe aus juristischer sowie medizinischer Sicht genauer zu beleuchten und einen analytischen Ausblick auf die weitere Entwicklung der PID in Deutschland zu werfen. Zudem soll auch die embryonale Stammzellforschung naher untersucht...

Welche medizinethischen Grenzen haben Experimente am Menschen? Der Band diskutiert moralische Probleme und historische Fragen der Forschung. Geschichtliche und theoretische Aspekte klinischer Studien am Menschen werden mit dem Schwerpunkt 20. Jahrhundert behandelt: Was sind Hintergrunde und Konsequenzen der Humanversuche im Dritten Reich und der japanischen Experimente in China? Welche Vorgaben macht der "Nurnberger Kodex" fur Studien am Menschen? Fur die Ethik stehen nationale Standards des Arz...

"[The author] dissects the 2,572-page health law and lays out how it will affect your family's health and finances, your relationships with your doctor, and even your tax bill ... in plain English"--Page 4 of cover.

Pharmaceutical Economics begins with an investigation of the structure of the industry and its three main components: the research firms which produce innovative products; the generic drug industry and its expanding role; and the biotech industry, which is regarded as the future for pharmaceuticals. Further sections discuss topics including demand and incentives, pricing and regulation. Professor Comanor and Professor Schweitzer have selected the most significant articles by leading academics,...

Medicaid, America's government-run health insurance program for the poor, should be a lifeline that provides needed health care to Americans with no other options. Surprisingly, however, it doesn't. The medical literature reveals a $450 billion-a-year scandal: that people on Medicaid have far worse health outcomes than those with private insurance, and no better outcomes than those with no insurance at all. Why is this so? In How Medicaid Fails the Poor, Avik Roy explains how Medicaid's clumsy...

The legal status of assisted death in Canada is in urgent need of clarification and reform. If this is to take place, however, the process must be informed by a careful, thorough, and thoughtful analysis of the issues. In Dying Justice, Jocelyn Downie provides an up-to-date and comprehensive review of significant developments in the current legal status of assisted death in Canada. She then recasts the framework for analysis in terms of the nature of the decision for assisted death. Refusals of...

Text, Cases & Materials on Medical Law and Ethics presents a valuable collection of materials relating to this topical and increasingly controversial area of the law. Comprising extracts from statutes, cases and scholarly articles alongside expert author commentary and guidance, Medical Law and Ethics signposts students to all the key issues and principles in medical law. Divided into two parts, the text concentrates on the general principles that permeate medical law before considering the i...