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  • Rechtliche Herausforderungen der Nanotechnologie im Arzneimittelrecht

    Series Book 126 - Recht und Medizin
    In der Medizin verspricht die Nanotechnologie enorme Fortschritte, jedoch nicht ohne Nachteile. Die Unberechenbarkeit der mit der Nanotechnologie hergestellten Nanopartikel nimmt die Autorin zum Anlass, die Folgen für die klinische Prüfung am Menschen, insbesondere für die Risiko-Nutzen-Abwägung, zu untersuchen und stellt die Frage, ob das Restrisiko noch als sozialadäquat angesehen werden kann. ... Read more

    $58.99 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

    $29.99 USD

  • Reducing Gun Violence in America

    Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis

    Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineThe staggering toll of gun violence—which claims 31,000 U.S. lives each year—is an urgent public health issue that demands an effective evidence-based policy response.The Johns Hopkins University convened more than 20 of the world's leading experts on gun violence and policy to summarize relevant research and recommend policies that are both ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Reducing Race Differences in Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising

    The Case for Regulation

    Reducing health disparities by increasing access to health information is a national health policy priority. Evidence exists that direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising (DTCA) is effective in educating consumers about health issues. However, racial disparities exist in such advertising. In 2009, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a report that included recommendations for ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Regional Cooperation, Intellectual Property Law and Access to Medicines

    A Holistic Approach for Least Developed Countries

    Series series Routledge Research in Health Law
    This book examines the potential for regionalisation of intellectual property law and policy as a means of improving pharmaceutical access for least developed countries. The challenge of sustainable access to pharmaceuticals continues to be an issue of global significance. While much has been written on emerging economies in this context, least developed countries have been largely overlooked. ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Regulamentação e Aplicabilidade da Telemedicina como Ferramenta de Expansão Democrática do Direito Constitucional à Saúde

    A telemedicina é um serviço disruptivo, capaz de revolucionar o contexto de saúde dos brasileiros mas precisa ultrapassar as barreiras legislativas, sociais e econômicas. O autor, Rodrigo Freitas, analisa criticamente a regulamentação brasileira sobre a telemedicina, bem como, as dificuldades jurídicas e sociais que deverão ser encaradas no desenvolvimento desse sistema. É obra importante para os ... Read more

    $4.99 USD $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Regulating Gun Sales

    An Excerpt from Reducing Gun Violence in America, Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis

    This excerpt from the “masterful, timely, data-driven” study of the gun control debate examines the potential of stronger purchasing laws (Choice).As the debate on gun control continues, evidence-based research is needed to answer a crucial question: How do we reduce gun violence? One of the biggest gun policy reforms under consideration is the regulation of firearm sales and stopping the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Regulatory Stewardship of Health Research

    Navigating Participant Protection and Research Promotion

    Series series Elgar Studies in Law and Regulation
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This timely book examines the interaction of health research and regulation with law through empirical analysis and the application of key anthropological concepts to reveal the inner workings of human health research. Through ground-breaking empirical ... Read more

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  • Reinventing Medicine

    Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing

    by Larry Dossey ...
    Larry Dossey forever changed our understanding of the healing process with his phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Healing Words. Now the man considered on of the pioneers of mind/body medicine provides the scientific and medical proof that the spiritual dimension works in therapeutic treatment, exploding the boundaries of the healing arts with his most powerful book yet. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Religion, Medicine and the Law

    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    Is the legal protection that is given to the expression of Abrahamic religious belief adequate or appropriate in the context of English medical law? This is the central question that is explored in this book, which develops a framework to support judges in the resolution of contentious cases that involve dissension between religious belief and medical law, developed from Alan Gewirth’s Principle ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Representing Ebola

    Culture, Law, and Public Discourse about the 2013–2015 West African Ebola Outbreak

    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
    Representing Ebola provides readers with a critical legal analysis of the recent West African Ebola Outbreak. The author argues that a review of the scientific, military, legal, economic, political, and mediated coverage of this latest outbreak highlights the ways that organizations like the World Health Organization or Doctors Without Borders want to conceptualize the importance of rapid ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Responsabilidad del Sistema Sanitario y Farmacéutico

    Organización y régimen jurídico

    En situaciones extraordinarias como en los casos de inundaciones, terremotos o pandemias, como el caso del Covid-19, que asola al mundo y en particular a España, se hace más necesario aún contar con un sistema sanitario fuerte y preparado, con todos los medios humanos y técnicos posibles, para atender a la población víctima de estos avatares. El derecho de los ciudadanos a la salud se lleva a cabo ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Responsabilidade Profissional em Saúde

    A responsabilidade profissional em saúde reporta-se aos deveres e obrigações que os seus profissionais assumem no exercício da sua profissão, sendo o médico técnica e deontologicamente independente, mas responsável pelos seus atos. Até há poucas décadas atrás pouco se discutia sobre esta responsabilidade. O médico era uma figura mítica, um benfeitor que intervinha sempre para o bem do doente. ... Read more

    $13.30 USD

  • Restrictive Practices in Health Care and Disability Settings

    Legal, Policy and Practical Responses

    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    This volume explores different models of regulating the use of restrictive practices in health care and disability settings.The authors examine the legislation, policies, inspection, enforcement and accreditation of the use of practices such as physical, mechanical and chemical restraint. They also explore the importance of factors such as organisational culture and staff training to the effective ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Rethinking Drug Laws

    Theory, History, Politics

    by Toby Seddon ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    Drugs are pervasive in our everyday lives across cultures around the world. At the same time, they present one of the thorniest problems of twenty-first century policy, connected with concerns about crime, security, and public health. The global prohibition system, established a century ago, is widely seen to be failing and over the last decade alternative approaches have started to proliferate in ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Revista de Direito da Saúde Suplementar Ano 6

    Series Book 6 - 6
    Um dos pilares fundamentais para a existência da Saúde Suplementar é ter regras claras. Por isso, a recente lei 14.454, que flexibilizou a taxatividade do rol de procedimentos da ANS, tem um potencial de alta periculosidade para o nosso segmento porque ela implodiu duas bases de como nos organizamos hoje: o que devemos oferecer para os beneficiários dos planos e, assim, deixa em aberto as bases do ... Read more

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  • Revista de Direito de Saúde Suplementar n. 7

    Series Book 7 - Revista de Direito de Saúde Suplementar
    A 7ª edição da Revista de Direito da Saúde Suplementar cumpre mais uma vez seu objetivo: informar as autogestões e os demais atores da saúde suplementar, além de ser literatura aprovada pelos Tribunais superiores para consulta dos magistrados. São informações relevantes e conteúdos atualizados que podem enriquecer o conhecimento de todas as operadoras do país, dos beneficiários e de todos os ... Read more

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  • Risky Business: Sharing Health Data While Protecting Privacy

    Edited by Khaled El Emam ...
    Due to the digitization of medical records, more and more health data is readily available. This dynamic has created many opportunities to unlock this information and use it to improve medical practice, and through research and surveillance understand the effectiveness and side effects of drugs and medical devices to ultimately improve the public’s health. This data can also be used for commercial ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Complementary and Alternative Medicine

    Perspectives from Social Science and Law

    The provision and use of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been growing globally over the last 40 years. As CAM develops alongside - and sometimes integrates with - conventional medicine, this handbook provides the first major overview of its regulation and professionalization from social science and legal perspectives.The Routledge Handbook of Complementary and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Global Health Rights

    This book examines the idea of a fundamental entitlement to health and healthcare from a human rights perspective.The volume is based on a particular conceptual reasoning that balances critical thinking and pragmatism in the context of a universal right to health. Thus, the primary focus of the book is the relationship or contrast between rights-based discourse/jurisprudential arguments and real ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Law and the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Edited by Joelle Grogan, Alice Donald ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Law
    The COVID-19 pandemic not only ravaged human bodies but also had profound and possibly enduring effects on the health of political and legal systems, economies and societies. Almost overnight, governments imposed the severest restrictions in modern times on rights and freedoms, elections, parliaments and courts. Legal and political institutions struggled to adapt, creating a catalyst for ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Medical Law and Ethics

    This book explores the scope, application and role of medical law, regulatory norms and ethics, and addresses key challenges introduced by contemporary advances in biomedical research and healthcare. While mindful of national developments, the handbook supports a global perspective in its approach to medical law.Contributors include leading scholars in both medical law and ethics, who have ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Mental Health Law

    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Law
    Mental health law is a rapidly evolving area of practice and research, with growing global dimensions. This work reflects the increasing importance of this field, critically discussing key issues of controversy and debate, and providing up-to-date analysis of cutting-edge developments in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Australia.This is a timely moment for this book to appear. The United ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Routledge Readings on Law, Development and Legal Pluralism

    Ecology, Families, Governance

    Edited by Kalpana Kannabiran ...
    Series series Routledge Readings
    Routledge Readings on Law, Development and Legal Pluralism presents some of the finest essays on social justice, environment, rights and governance. With a lucid new Introduction, it covers a vast range of issues and offers a compelling guide to understanding the harm and risk relating to biodiversity, agro-ecology, disaster and forest rights. The book covers critical themes such as ecology, ... Read more

    $52.99 USD