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Primer On eBook Series

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  • Mental Health Practice and the Law

    Edited by Ronald Schouten ...
    Series series Primer On
    Mental health professionals, more than any other clinicians, encounter legal issues on a regular basis. This is a book for anyone in the field, at any stage in their training or practice, who has ever found themselves scratching their head in confusion or dreading that they will expose themselves to liability as they navigate the complexities at the interface of law and mental health. Written by ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

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  • Rights Come to Mind

    Brain Injury, Ethics, and the Struggle for Consciousness

    by Joseph J. Fins ...
    Through the sobering story of Maggie Worthen and her mother, Nancy, this book tells of one family's struggle with severe brain injury and how developments in neuroscience call for a reconsideration of what society owes patients at the edge of consciousness. Drawing upon over fifty in-depth family interviews, the history of severe brain injury from Quinlan to Schiavo, and his participation in ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Clinical Forensic Medicine

    Edited by W. D. S. McLay ...
    Medical evidence plays a vital part in many criminal prosecutions, most notably when serious injury or physical abuse is part of the prosecution's case. Now in its third edition, this book is an essential text for practitioners of clinical forensic medicine and for those who take them through judicial proceedings, be they prosecutors or defence lawyers. It is written by a team of skilled and ... Read more

    $121.39 USD

  • What Makes Health Public?

    A Critical Evaluation of Moral, Legal, and Political Claims in Public Health

    by John Coggon ...
    Series Book 15 - Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    John Coggon argues that the important question for analysts in the fields of public health law and ethics is 'what makes health public?' He offers a conceptual and analytic scrutiny of the salient issues raised by this question, outlines the concepts entailed in, or denoted by, the term 'public health' and argues why and how normative analyses in public health are inquiries in political theory. ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • An Error in Judgement

    by Dara Culhane ...
    On January 22, 1979, an eleven-year-old Native girl died of a ruptured appendix in an Alert Bay, B.C. hospital. The events that followed are chronicled here by Dara Culhane Speck, a member by marriage of the Nimpkish Indian Band in Alert Bay. She has relied mainly on interviews, anecdotes and public records to describe how this small, isolated Native community took on the local hospital, the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics

    Edited by Peter A. Singer, A. M. Viens ...
    Medicine and health care generate many bioethical problems and dilemmas that are of great academic, professional and public interest. This comprehensive resource is designed as a succinct yet authoritative text and reference for clinicians, bioethicists, and advanced students seeking a better understanding of ethics problems in the clinical setting. Each chapter illustrates an ethical problem that ... Read more

    $125.49 USD

  • Medical Law and Medical Ethics

    by Nils Hoppe, José Miola ...
    A focus on the interplay between medical law and medical ethics makes this refreshing new textbook the most balanced approach available to students of law and medicine. By offering a unique chapter structure which gives equal weight to both the legal and ethical issues it allows for an appreciation of all factors at play in the field of medical law. In addition, its student-friendly writing style ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Coping with Choices to Die

    by C. G. Prado ...
    This book examines the reactions of the friends and family of those who elect to die due to terminal illness. These surviving spouses, partners, relatives and friends, in addition to coping with the death of a loved one, must also deal with the loved one's decision to die, thus severing the relationship. C. G. Prado examines how reactions to elective death are influenced by cultural influences and ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in Adults: Ethical and Legal Perspectives

    An overview on FASD for professionals

    Edited by Monty Nelson, Marguerite Trussler ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book discusses and provides insight on the legal and ethical dilemmas of managing those with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). This book provides a clear perspective for those clinicians and legal professionals who are working with those with this disorder, and correspondingly increases their understanding when arranging effective supports for this population. Historically, the primary ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • International Neurolaw

    A Comparative Analysis

    Edited by Tade Matthias Spranger ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Whereas the past few years have repeatedly been referred to as the “era of biotechnology”, most recently the impression has emerged that at least the same degree of attention is being paid to the latest developments in the field of neurosciences. It has now become nearly impossible to maintain an overview of the number of research projects dealing with the functionality of the brain – for example ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Continuous Sedation at the End of Life

    Ethical, Clinical and Legal Perspectives

    Edited by Kasper Raus, Freddy Mortier, Sigrid Sterckx ...
    Series series Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    Continuous sedation until death (sometimes referred to as terminal sedation or palliative sedation) is an increasingly common practice in end-of-life care. However, it raises numerous medical, ethical, emotional and legal concerns, such as the reducing or removing of consciousness (and thus potentially causing 'subjective death'), the withholding of artificial nutrition and hydration, the ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Criminal Law, Philosophy and Public Health Practice

    Edited by A. M. Viens, John Coggon, Anthony S. Kessel ...
    Series series Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    The goal of improving public health involves the use of different tools, with the law being one way to influence the activities of institutions and individuals. Of the regulatory mechanisms afforded by law to achieve this end, criminal law remains a perennial mechanism to delimit the scope of individual and group conduct. Utilising criminal law may promote or hinder public health goals, and its ... Read more

    $118.89 USD