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  • The Umbilical Cord Blood Controversies in Medical Law

    by Karen Devine ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    Since the therapeutic value of umbilical cord blood (UCB) stem cells was first recognised in the late 1980s, there has been a proliferation of both public and private UCB banks worldwide. However, the ability to utilise such a potentially valuable resource has provoked a number of controversies. In a distinctly accessible style, this book unpacks the socio-legal implications of the UCB collection ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Obamacare: Complete Law, Latest Statistics & Republican's Counterproposal

    The Affordable Care Act, Its Impact, and the Republican Alternative

    by White House, United States Congress ...
    This e-book contains the complete text of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The edition also includes the latest data on health coverage and health care expenses, as well as the Republicans' counter arguments and their proposed bill. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, is a ... Read more

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  • Health Law

    Frameworks and Context

    by Anne-Maree Farrell, John Devereux, Isabel Karpin, Penelope Weller ...
    Drawing upon a range of disciplinary perspectives, Health Law: Frameworks and Context adopts a theoretically informed and principles-based approach to examining health law. Appealing to students and academic scholars alike, the text moves beyond traditional medical law frameworks to provide a broader contextual understanding of the way in which law intersects with health. A clear and accessible ... Read more

    $133.69 USD

  • Reconsidering Law and Policy Debates

    A Public Health Perspective

    Edited by John G. Culhane ...
    This book approaches a variety of social and political issues that have become highly polarized and resistant to compromise by examining them through a population-based public health perspective. The topics included are some of the most contentious: abortion and reproductive rights; end-of-life issues, including the right to die and the treatment of pain; the connection between racism and poor ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Bioethics

    Methods, Theories, Domains

    by Marcus Düwell ...
    Series 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 agriculture. The book also seeks to go beyond simply describing the issues in order to provide the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Principles of Medical Law

    Edited by Judith Laing, Jean McHale, Sir Ian Kennedy, Andrew Grubb ...
    Principles of Medical Law is the leading practitioner text in its field. Now in its fourth edition, it provides a comprehensive and scholarly account of the common law and statutory provisions governing healthcare provision in England and Wales. It offers an authoritative and up-to-date account of medical law whilst also seeking to set the law in context and critique its application. The ... Read more

    $345.59 USD

  • Assisted Dying

    Reflections on the Need for Law Reform

    by Sheila McLean ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    Assisted Dying explores the law relating to euthanasia and assisted suicide, tracing its development from prohibition through to the laissez faire attitude adopted in a number of countries in the 21st Century. This book provides an in-depth critique of the arguments surrounding legislative control of such practices and particularly looks into the regulatory role of the state. In the classical ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Drug Wars

    How Big Pharma Raises Prices and Keeps Generics off the Market

    by Robin Feldman, Evan Frondorf ...
    While the shockingly high prices of prescription drugs continue to dominate the news, the strategies used by pharmaceutical companies to prevent generic competition are poorly understood, even by the lawmakers responsible for regulating them. In this groundbreaking work, Robin Feldman and Evan Frondorf illuminate the inner workings of the pharmaceutical market and show how drug companies twist ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Criminalising Contagion

    Legal and Ethical Challenges of Disease Transmission and the Criminal Law

    Edited by Catherine Stanton, Hannah Quirk ...
    Series series Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    The use of the criminal law to punish those who transmit disease is a topical and controversial issue. To date, the law, and the related academic literature, has largely focused on HIV transmission. With contributions from leading practitioners and international scholars from a variety of disciplines, this volume explores the broader question of if and when it is appropriate to criminalise the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Connected Self

    The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual

    by Heather Widdows ...
    Series series Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    Currently, the ethics infrastructure – from medical and scientific training to the scrutiny of ethics committees – focuses on trying to reform informed consent to do a job which it is simply not capable of doing. Consent, or choice, is not an effective ethical tool in public ethics and is particularly problematic in the governance of genetics. Heather Widdows suggests using alternative and ... Read more

    $118.89 USD

  • The Right to Know and the Right Not to Know

    Genetic Privacy and Responsibility

    Edited by Ruth Chadwick, Mairi Levitt, Darren Shickle ...
    Series series Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    The privacy concerns discussed in the 1990s in relation to the New Genetics failed to anticipate the relevant issues for individuals, families, geneticists and society. Consumers, for example, can now buy their personal genetic information and share it online. The challenges facing genetic privacy have evolved as new biotechnologies have developed, and personal privacy is increasingly challenged ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Stem Cell Research and the Collaborative Regulation of Innovation

    by Sarah Devaney ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    Hopes are high that stem cell (SC) research will lead to treatments and cures for some of the most serious diseases affecting humankind today. SC science has been used in a treatment setting in the replacement of patients’ windpipes and in restoring sight to patients who were blind in one eye and in future it is hoped that when the body is injured it will be able to be stimulated to produce those ... Read more

    $77.99 USD