Diese Arbeit beschaftigt sich mit den besonderen Geschehnissen beim Transport der Leiche einer jungen Giftmoerderin namens Christiane Ruthardt in die Tubinger Anatomie. Sie war am 27. Juni 1845 wegen Gattenmords in Stuttgart auf der Feuerbacher Heide oeffentlich durch das Schwert hingerichtet worden. Bei der UEberstellung ihres Leichnams an das anatomische Institut kam es zu groben UEbergriffen und Misshandlungen ihrer Leiche. Ziel der Untersuchung ist es, neben der Betrachtung der menschlichen...
Rechtsprobleme Vorgeburtlicher Diagnoseverfahren (Schriften Zum Strafrecht Und Strafprozessrecht, #90)
by Manuel Fumagalli
Die Diskussion um die Praimplantationsdiagnostik erweckt zuweilen den Eindruck, als handele es sich bei ihr um ein mit den etablierten Methoden der Pranataldiagnostik schlechthin unvergleichbares Phanomen. Eine systematische Analyse des zugrundeliegenden Personenrechtsverhaltnisses gibt demgegenuber den Blick auf einen allen vorgeburtlichen Untersuchungsverfahren gemeinsamen Begrundungszusammenhang frei. Als Freies gedacht unterliegt das auf Seiten der Mutter besonders pflichtintensive Personens...
"The purpose of this book. this book is designed for both the pathologist who performs an occasional forensic autopsy and the medical investigator (e.g., field agent, investigator, coroner) who must evaluate if the autopsy has been performed to an adequate degree for the determination of cause and manner of death. it can also be used by independent consultants and lawyers who must evaluate a case as to the adequacy of the services performed by the person who performed the autopsy. it is not desi...
This interdisciplinary collection presents valuable discourse and reflection on the nature of a good death. Bringing together a leading judge and other legal scholars, philosophers, social scientists, practitioners and parents who present varying accounts of a good death, the chapters draw from personal experience as well as policy, practice and academic analysis. Covering themes such as patients' rights to determine their own good death, considering their best interests when communication bec...
Color Atlas of Forensic Medicine and Pathology
New York City has the largest medical examiner's office in the United States, and the Brooklyn division is the busiest of the five boroughs. Charles A. Catanese received his Forensic Pathology fellowship training in New York, and then worked full time as a Medical Examiner in the Brooklyn office for more than 10 years. He has personally performed more than 4000 autopsies, including over 400 homicides. Dr. Catanese has worked through several disasters, including TWA Flight 800, AA Flight 587, and...
Die Arbeit untersucht die Leistungsbeziehungen zwischen gesetzlichen Krankenkassen und Leistungserbringern unter wettbewerbsrechtlichen Gesichtspunkten. Beleuchtet wird die Frage nach der Anwendbarkeit des Wettbewerbsrechts auf den Abschluss von selektiven Leistungserbringungsvertragen in Abgrenzung zum Kollektivvertragssystem der GKV. Im Mittelpunkt der Arbeit stehen dabei die Entwicklung der gesetzlichen Krankenkassen zu Unternehmen im Zuge der OEkonomisierung der Verwaltung und das daraus res...
Vigorously demonstrating the relevance of reasoning to important moral problems, the participants in this dialogue resist the temptations of strident emotional appeal in an effort to present the most honorable and intellectually sophisticated sides of their arguments. This effort leads them to consideration of ante-bellum slavery, to a comparison of the notions of absolute truth in ethics versus mathematics, and to constructive discussions of genetics, artificial intelligence, euthanasia, person...
Millions of Americans suffer from indifferent, outdated health care; an estimated 40,000 incidents of medical harm happen every day. The good news is that you can prevent this from happening to you or a family member. Better yet, you can find the very best care in the world. Patrick Malone's sensible advice and real-life anecdotes will inspire you to take charge of your own health care, make the best choices, and avoid serious harm. With the "Necessary Nine"-the essential steps to finding the be...
Bioethics Mediation offers stories about patients, families, and health care providers enmeshed in conflict as they wrestle with decisions about life and death. It provides guidance for those charged with supporting the patient's traditional and religious commitments and personal wishes. Today's medical system, without intervention, privileges those within shared cultures of communication and disadvantages those lacking power and position, such as immigrants, the poor, and nonprofessionals. This...
Gentechnisches Labor – Leitfaden für Wissenschaftler
by Kirsten Bender and Petra Kauch
Dieses Buch liefert Ihnen einen umfassenden und praxisnahen Überblick zu Fragen zum Gentechnikgesetz und seiner Rechtsverordnungen im Laboralltag. Ob Transformation bei Bakterien oder virale Gentransfermethoden bei höheren Zellen, die Kenntnis der rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen und der Sicherheit in den Labors spielt bei allen angewandten Methoden die wichtigste Voraussetzung. Diese werden in Deutschland im Wesentlichen durch das Gentechnikgesetz und die Gentechnik-Sicherheitsverordnung gewährl...
An argument that the system of boards that license human-subject research is so fundamentally misconceived that it inevitably does more harm than good.Medical and social progress depend on research with human subjects. When that research is done in institutions getting federal money, it is regulated (often minutely) by federally required and supervised bureaucracies called “institutional review boards” (IRBs). Do—can—these IRBs do more harm than good? In The Censor's Hand, Schneider addresses th...
Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine
The Encyclopedia of Forensic & Legal Medicine comprehensively covers forensic and legal medicine (including related specialities and scientific, technical and legal issues) and is available online and in three printed volumes, offering any practitioner in a forensic, medical, healthcare, legal, judicial, or investigative field easily accessible and authoritative overviews on a wide range of topics. The work is edited and written by experienced professionals with medical, legal or dual traini...
An International Expert Workshop on the Right to Social Security was held in April 2005 at the German Institute for Human Rights, whose purpose was to highlight specific issues of the right to social security which should be addressed by the Committee when drafting a General Comment on article 9. The results of this workshop are published in this volume providing an insight into the current challenges on social security as a human right.
Alfred and Blair Sadler offer an illuminating and inspiring account of how they helped usher in groundbreaking changes in emergency medicine, organ donation, bioethics and the creation of the physician assistant profession.Pluck brings together the spirit of courage, taking of roads-less-traveled, and living with a mindset focused on possibility that we can all call upon to improve everyday life. It inspires hope and collaboration, as well as meaningful change and actions. Alfred Sadler and Bla...
In The Case for Vaccine Mandates, Alan Dershowitz-New York Times bestselling author and one of America's most respected legal scholars-makes an argument, against the backdrop of ideologically driven and politicized objections, for mandating (with medical exceptions) vaccinations as a last resort, if proved necessary to prevent the spread of COVID. Alan Dershowitz has been called "one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America" by Politico and "the nation's m...
Samenspende Und Register (MedR Schriftenreihe Medizinrecht)
by Saskia Koeppen