Author Description

This sweeping revision of HEALTH CARE LAW, FORENSIC SCIENCE, AND PUBLIC POLICY draws on the formidable talents of a cross-disciplinary author team to provide comprehensive coverage for today's curriculum. it thoroughly conveys the reality of medical practice and clinical judgment as it explores and explains the issues surrounding the intersection of medicine and law. Organized around categories of legal doctrine affecting medical institutions, The book is divided into three parts: Patient/Physician Relationship - covers malpractice, informed consent, duty to treat, And The right to die Patient/State - reviews public health, reproductive rights, bioethics, and genetics Provider/Institutes and State - deals with managed care, licensure, antitrust, medical staff disputes, and cost containment This presentation unites commercially similar activities and cuts across arbitrary legal standards. The authors integrate themes of quality of care, ethics, acess, and costs throughout the book. HEALTH CARE LAW AND ETHICS, Fifth Edition, focuses on important current topics and addresses intriguing issues, such as the phenomenology of being ill new perspectives from feminism and cultural anthropology possible future developments in the law The authors make legal and policy issues easily understandable while maintaining a depth of coverage unmatched in other casebooks. HEALTH CARE LAW AND ETHICS, Fifth Edition, contains a wealth of well-chosen cases, provocative problems, and excellent notes. An extensive Teacher's Manual answers the problems and questions posed in the book and offers a roadmap for fast selection of material when time is tight.