Medicolegal issues Books

Dr. Jan Lightfoot, a retired forensic social worker, unveils a fraud conspiracy in 'The Lightfoot Report.' Despite her medical retirement due to a federal work injury, she established The Vine Network to support vulnerable communities. Her investigation...

Nurses are independent and collaborative partners in health care. Historically, however, the image of nursing has been entrenched in co-dependence and a perceived victimization within the nursing profession. It is time for nurses of all levels to join...

Promoting Reproductive Security in Developing Countries provides a comprehensive approach to developing and implementing reproductive health programs in the developing world. It fills a major gap in the literature by responding...

This work deals with the current health policy environment, organization and delivery of health services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It discusses present financing means, and future financing methods such as a proposed...

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In recent years, the reduction of alcohol-related harm has emerged as a major policy issue across Europe. Public health advocates, supported by the World Health Organisation, have challenged an approach that targets problem-drinking individuals, calling...

While medical language is soaked in metaphor, and thinking with metaphor is central to diagnostic work, medicine - that is, medical culture, clinical practice and medical education - outwardly rejects metaphor for objective, literal scientific language...

The U.S. healthcare system exists in a trust crisis. Without trust, the United States Healthcare system is doomed to mediocrity. Although healthcare is the most personal of interactions, the U.S. healthcare system is grounded in a business model based on...

From the beginning of mankind, health and health issues have played a major role in life, but the issues and care have evolved enormously from the time when the first settlers set foot in America to the present. In The History and Evolution of Healthcare...

Healthcare reform in the United States is a significant, strongly debated issue that has been argued since the early 1900s. Though this issue has been in circulation for decades, by integrating various new models and approaches, a more sustainable...

Clay DeStefano has spent thirty years working in a health care industry, and he's come to an unexpected conclusion: Medical care should be sought only as a last resort and even then, with extreme caution. Unfortunately, Americans today seem addicted to...

Responding to the public concern caused by recent hospital scandals and accounts of unintended harm to patients, this author draws on her experience of analysing the health care systems of over a dozen countries and examines whether greater regulation...

This is the first ever guide to help residency programs, trainees, and other champions create, expand, and improve global health education. Learn from the experiences of existing programs, the unique career paths of successful globally active physicians,...

Imagine your worst nightmare as a parent...D'Ashon was born three months early, weighed just over one pound and tested positive for several drugs, including cocaine and marijuana, which most likely contributed to his premature birth. Shortly after birth,...

Health service policy and health policy have changed considerably over the past fifteen years and there is a pressing need for an up-to-date sociological analysis of health policy. Not only have policies themselves changed but new policy themes - such as...

Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare argues that traditional modes of bioethics are proving incommensurable with burgeoning biotechnologies and consequently, emerging subjectivities. Drawn from diverse disciplines, this volume works toward...

The history of patent harmonization is a story of dynamic actors, whose interactions with established structures shaped the patent regime. From the inception of the trade regime to include intellectual property (IP) rights to the present, this book...

A prevailing excitement can be discerned in the medical and public health literature and popular media concerning the apparent 'disruptive' or 'revolutionary' potential of digital health technologies. Most of the wider social implications are often...

Pharmaceuticals constitute a relatively small share of the total Health Care expenditure in most developed economies, and yet they play a critical role in the ongoing debate over how best to advance, improve, and afford Health Care. Despite this, and...

This book proposes an innovative new model for transforming racial and cultural lines in health and social care through communication processes, and introduces listening partnerships as a cost-effective, sustainable intervention to improve communication...

People with disabilities often require personal care assistance (PCA) to perform daily activities and pursue life roles. PCA has historically been institution-based, resulting in the segregation of disabled people. Home-based PCA is an alternative to...

There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the past couple of decades. This has substantially increased the availability of health-related goods and services in all but the most remote localities, but it has...

The Eye, Its Refraction And Diseases is a comprehensive book written by Edward Engler Gibbons in 1904. The book is a detailed guide to the anatomy and function of the human eye, as well as the various diseases and disorders that can affect it. Gibbons...

""Etude Sur L�������Organisation De La Medecine En France Et A L'Etranger"" est un livre �����crit par L�����on Cl�����ment Le Fort en 1874. Il s'agit d'une �����tude approfondie de l'organisation de la m�����decine en France et ������ l'�����tranger...

The new NHS is a very different organisation to the one set up 60 years ago. Two decades of reforms have introduced a market element, unprecedented transparency, patient choice, new incentives, devolved accountabilities and a host of new regulatory...

Each of us will be both a patient and caregiver at some point in our lives. We all want a healthcare system that supports everyone. In this book, Dr. Doug Slakey guides caregivers, patients, and healthcare organizations to obtain the best clinical...

Detailing how Australia's Therapeutics Goods Administration conducted horizon scanning for new vaccines during the pandemic to assist ADB, this report is designed to help countries in Asia and the Pacific prepare for future outbreaks.It provides details...

Addressing the changing world of professionalism, this text combines theory, research and practice to investigate the process of becoming professional. Mapping the journey from allied or associate practitioner positions through qualifying and into...

This book provides original insights into how "new biology" and "translational" policies to drive a health bioeconomy are reshaping innovation ecosystems, and disrupting R&D practices, institutional and professional boundaries, and notions of "value" in...

This informative guide to health ordinances is an essential resource for anyone interested in public health and safety. It covers a wide range of topics, including hospital regulations, food safety, and disease prevention. The book is designed primarily...

Cultural anxieties about fatness and the attendant stigmatisation of fat bodies, have lent a medical authority and cultural legitimacy to what can be described as 'fat-phobia'. Against the backdrop of the ever-growing medicalisation, pathologisation, and...

This volume addresses gaps in the existing literature of global mental health by focusing on the ethical considerations that are implicit in discussions of health policy. In line with trends in clinical education around the world today, this text is...

This first-of-its-kind volume traces rarely explored links between public policy, the state of the environment, and key issues in public health, with recommendations for addressing longstanding intractable problems. Experts across diverse professions use...

We will all die, but few of us discuss it with those who are important to us. Many will also be confronted by disability, illness, grief and loss. How we respond to suffering says much about empathy, love and who we are. There is no doubt many people...

Myth: People from marginalized backgrounds have poorer health outcomes because of poor decision-making.Through extensive research and interviews, Health Care of a Thousand Slights, Connecting Legacy to Access to Healthcare debunks the myth, demonstrating...

First used to describe the weariness the public felt toward media portrayals of societal crises, the term compassion fatigue has been taken up by health professionals to name-along with burnout, vicarious traumatization, compassion stress, and secondary...

Das Buch ""Beitr�����ge zur Reform des Sanit�����tswesens aus Westfalen V1 (1849)"" von Franz Brefeld ist eine Sammlung von Aufs�����tzen und Artikeln, die sich mit der Reform des Sanit�����tswesens in Westfalen im 19. Jahrhundert besch�����ftigen. Der...

Health care is a central pillar of the welfare state, in fact, the second pillar in terms of expenditure after pensions. However, we know little about how they perform. European health care systems have been put increasingly under pressure during the...

Medicine and tourism have become separated in contemporary popular consciousness. The former implies anything but a pleasurable experience and the latter presumes a healthy disposition for participation. We argue that this popular conception of the...

This book is a somewhat unusual depiction of a difficult policy issue. It transcends almost all boundaries because of its constant change and its movement across many different participants.It was found attached to a range of policy topics, methodologies...

This Book is based on a Study which aimed to outline Jamaica's existing health financing system through the functions of revenue collection, risk pooling and purchasing. It also looks at the extent to which policies and practices have impacted the...

The practice of health policy research in developing countries is characterised by overindulgence in analysis of content, while neglecting policy process, actors and context. This study sets out to generate critical learning on how the latter ...

Military members have a distinctive work environment, where status within the hierarchy is clearly displayed on uniform dress and lower ranks are to dutifully obey the commands from above. The aim of this study was to explore the issues related to job...

This paper reports the results of a survey of health professionals in South Africa conducted in 2005-6 by SAMP. Since there is no single reliable database for all practicing health professionals, SAMP used the 29,000 strong database of MEDpages. All...

One of the critical challenges facing Africa is how to harness the potential of internal and international migration in the interests of development. The Southern African Migration Project (SAMP) is an international network of organizations founded in...