Medical & Healthcare Law Books

New and Published Books

1. Q&A Medical Law 2013-2014

   2nd Edition

   By Jonathan Herring

   Series: Questions and Answers

   Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in an exam situation. Each book contains up to fifty essay and problem-based questions on the most commonly examined topics, complete with expert guidance and...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
2. Corporate Crime in the Pharmaceutical Industry (Routledge Revivals)

   By John Braithwaite

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1984, this book examines corporate crime in the pharmaceutical industry. Based on extensive research, including interviews with 131 senior executives of pharmaceutical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Mexico and Guatemala, the book is a major study...

   Published November 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. New Law and Ethics in Mental Health Advance Directives

   The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Right to Choose

   By Penelope Weller

   Series: Explorations in Mental Health

   The recognition of positive rights and the growing impact of human rights principles has recently orchestrated a number of reforms in mental health law, bringing increasing entitlement to an array of health services. In this book, Penelope Weller considers the relationship between human rights and...

   Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
4. Global Health Disputes and Disparities

   A Critical Appraisal of International Law and Population Health

   By Dru Bhattacharya

   Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

   Global Health Disputes and Disparities explores inequalities in health around the world, looking particularly at the opportunity for, and limitations of, international law to promote population health by examining its intersection with human rights, trade, and epidemiology, and the controversial...

   Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge
5. Bioethics

   Methods, Theories, Domains

   By Marcus Düwell

   Series: Biomedical Law and Ethics Library

   This book is a philosophically-oriented introduction to bioethics. It offers the reader an overview of key debates in bioethics relevant to various areas including; organ retrieval, stem cell research, justice in healthcare and issues in environmental ethics, including issues surrounding food and...

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
6. Regulating Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis

   A Comparative and Theoretical Analysis

   Edited by Sheila A.M. McLean, Sarah Elliston

   Series: Biomedical Law and Ethics Library

   The successful achievement of pregnancies following pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) was first reported in April 1990. The technology is often used for patients who are at substantial risk of conceiving a pregnancy affected by a known genetic disorder, however from this technology other...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
7. Law, Ethics and Compromise at the Limits of Life

   To Treat or not to Treat?

   By Richard Huxtable

   Series: Biomedical Law and Ethics Library

   A conflict arises in the clinic over the care of a critically ill, incapacitated patient. The clinicians and the patient’s family confront a difficult choice: to treat or not to treat? Decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment feature frequently in the courts and in the world's...

   Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
8. Effective Expert Witnessing, Fifth Edition

   Practices for the 21st Century

   By Jack V. Matson

   The testimony of an expert witness can lead to success or failure in cases that hinge on the presentation’s impact on a jury. Effective Expert Witnessing, Fifth Edition: Practices for the 21st Century explores the fundamentals of litigation, trial preparation, courtroom presentation, and the...

   Published August 29th 2012 by CRC Press
9. A Primer on Clinical Experience in Medicine

   Reasoning, Decision Making, and Communication in Health Sciences

   By Milos Jenicek, MD

   Mastery of quality health care and patient safety begins as soon as we open the hospital doors for the first time and start acquiring practical experience. The acquisition of such experience includes much more than the development of sensorimotor skills and basic knowledge of the sciences. It...

   Published August 7th 2012 by CRC Press
10. Protecting the Public?

    Executive Discretion and the Release of Mentally Disordered Offenders

    By Tessa Boyd-Caine

    The separation of powers and independent, judicial decision-making are generally accepted as hallmarks of the rule of law in democratic societies. Yet the exercise of executive discretion remains an important aspect of criminal justice in many areas. Protecting the Public? explores the tension...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge