This outstanding text and reference provides health professionals & students with a balanced, comprehensive, highly readable survey of the legal concepts and controversies affecting them today. Avoiding unnecessarily technical language, it lucidly explains basic legal principles and theories, examines current issues and their implications, and probes future legal trends. Throughout, each chapter offers a complete, self-contained introdu ction to a medicolegal topic--including invaluable endnotes that cite references, clarify perspectives, and suggest further readings. A unique appendix also explains how to use law library facilities to best advantage.
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THE QUESTION OF what is law has been debated as long as laws have exited; it is a subject that intrigued ancient Greek philosophers and continues to intrigue late twentieth-century thinkers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
independent administrative agencies, locality rule, staff privileges, defining death, death investigation, malpractice law Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Department of Health, National Commission, Lain Review, Cosmetic Act, New Fork, Ness York, Blue Cross, Administrative Procedure Act, American Hospital Association, American Medical Association, District of Columbia, Freedom of Information Act, Journal of Health Politics, First Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Hastings Center Report, Health Law Primer, Institute of Medicine, Accreditation of Hospitals, Ann Arbor, Federal Trade Commission, Health Lain Primer, Medicolegal News New!
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THE QUESTION OF what is law has been debated as long as laws have exited; it is a subject that intrigued ancient Greek philosophers and continues to intrigue late twentieth-century thinkers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
independent administrative agencies, locality rule, staff privileges, defining death, death investigation, malpractice law Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Department of Health, National Commission, Lain Review, Cosmetic Act, New Fork, Ness York, Blue Cross, Administrative Procedure Act, American Hospital Association, American Medical Association, District of Columbia, Freedom of Information Act, Journal of Health Politics, First Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Hastings Center Report, Health Law Primer, Institute of Medicine, Accreditation of Hospitals, Ann Arbor, Federal Trade Commission, Health Lain Primer, Medicolegal News New!
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- Standard of Care: The Law of American Bioethics by George J. Annas in Back Matter
- Science, Culture, and Modern State Formation by Patrick Carroll in Back Matter
- Law in Public Health Practice by Richard A. Goodman on page 158
- An Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System by Steven Jonas on page 114
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