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  • 失智症事件簿:法庭交鋒錄

    by 鄭嘉欣 ...
    Series series CARE
    罹患失智症長者,經常苦於記憶障礙,無法完整陳述受冤枉、被設局陷害的困難,往往造成後續追訴犯罪、民事求償的窘迫困境;或失智症病人礙於病情發展,做下身不由己的犯罪行為,面臨刑責、法律追訴時,家屬該如何脫困求救?書中的案例與法條,是有需要的讀者們不可不知的基本自保。作者鄭嘉欣律師,出身地方法院檢察署檢察官,當失智母親被南部兩大醫院將失智誤診為退化,錯失及早發現及早治療,而在黃昏市場碰上詐騙集團,私房財務幾乎被洗劫一空,輾轉找到楊淵韓醫師後,母親被確診為失智症時,病情已達中度逼近重度。鄭嘉欣律師很感慨做了多年的檢察官,協助破案無數,卻對設局坑害母親的詐欺集團卻無從追補,因為失智母親已無法陳述受害的來龍去脈......因此她投身失智症協會,以法扶律師的身份,幫助因失智症而受害的病人及家屬。書中每一個CASE,都呈現了法庭的交鋒辯論,最後都有「法條便利貼」專欄,提供給讀者若須借法律尋求援助的可依據法律條文參考 ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • États généraux du droit médical et du dommage corporel

    Droit belge

    Les Éditions Anthemis vous proposent un outil complet pour comprendre le dommage corporel.Les questions de l’évaluation et de la réparation du dommage corporel sont récurrentes dans la pratique de nombreux professionnels du droit.Aléa médical, dommage moral, comportement de la victime, capitalisation, aggravation du dommage, rôle des assurances, place de la mutualité… ne constituent qu’un ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Épidémies

    Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

    L'épidémie, maladie sociale aux effets brusques et amples, est une grande réalité historique, longtemps aussi méconnue des historiens que redoutée des contemporains. Histoire des épidémies, mais aussi épidémies de l'histoire: les maladies n'apparaissent-elles pas avec leur vie indépendante... ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • Workplace Mental Health Law

    Comparative Perspectives

    Series series Routledge Research in Health Law
    This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary study of occupational mental health legislation in seven countries.The work presents a study of the laws, policies, and legal interpretations to help prevent mental health problems from occurring in the workplace and appropriately address problems once they do occur. With a view to improving provision in Japan, the author examines the legal ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Women's Health and the Limits of Law

    Domestic and International Perspectives

    Edited by Irehobhude O. Iyioha ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
    Despite some significant advances in the creation and protection of rights affecting women’s health, these do not always translate into actual health benefits for women. This collection asks: 'What is an effective law and what influences law’s effectiveness or ineffectiveness? What dynamics, elements, and conditions come together to limit law’s capacity to achieve instrumental goals for women’s ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Why Are Health Disparities Everyone's Problem?

    by Lisa Cooper ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins Wavelengths
    How can we all work together to eliminate the avoidable injustices that plague our health care system and society?Health is determined by far more than a person's choices and behaviors. Social and political conditions, economic forces, physical environments, institutional policies, health care system features, social relationships, risk behaviors, and genetic predispositions all contribute to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • When Misfortune Becomes Injustice

    Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality, Second Edition

    Series series Stanford Studies in Human Rights
    When Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades. Alicia Ely Yamin weaves together theory and firsthand experience in a compelling narrative of how evolving legal norms, empirical knowledge, and development paradigms have interacted in the realization of health rights, and challenges us to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • When Food Can Kill You

    What The World Needs To Know

    Living in a world with autoimmune diseases or food allergies is too often like walking out onto a battlefield without knowing who your opponents are or where the next attack will come from.When Food Can Kill You provides a constructive framework for managing and dealing with food allergies in different contexts and, with such, to help improve the quality of life for those who suffer with them ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $39.99 USD

  • What is...the Corporate Practice of Medicine and Fee-Splitting?

    The business of providing medical care is in the midst of dramatic change. To keep pace with evolving economics and reimbursement practices, the small physician practice, which stood as the standard arrangement for so long, is giving way to larger, more corporate models. These models have led to a highly regulated business environment in the health care services industry, which involves ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • What Is...The Anti-Kickback Statute? Second Edition

    The federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) is one of the best-known federal fraud and abuse statutes, due largely to its wide-ranging effects on business relationships in the health care, pharmaceutical, and medical device sectors. The newly-updated second edition of this primer explains how AKS is a criminal statute that prohibits transactions intended to induce or reward referrals for items or ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • What Are... Medicare Appeals? Second Edition

    With more than 60 million beneficiaries, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) processes more than 1 billion Medicare Part A and Part B Fee-for-Service (FFS) claims each year. The vast majority of these claims are processed without undergoing claims review, creating vulnerability for the Medicare Trust Funds. Authorized by various legislative actions, CMS has contracted with claims ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Wet & Duiding Kids-Codex Boek V

    Arbeidsrecht, Socialezekerheidsrecht, Gezondheidsrecht - Tweede bijgewerkte editie

    Series series Kids-codex - Tweede herwerkte editie
    Het vijfde en laatste boek van de KIDS-Codex, wordt de positie van de mnderjarigen in het sociaal recht grondig ontleed.Eerst wordt nagegaan wanneer en hoe minderjarigen in aanraking komen met het arbeidsrecht (hoofdstuk 11).Vervolgens wordt de regelgeving besproken waarmee minderjarigen te maken (kunnen) hebben in verband met sociale zekerheid (hoofdstuk 12).Ten slotte worden de rechten en ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Weapon of Choice

    Fighting Gun Violence While Respecting Gun Rights

    How ordinary Americans, frustrated by the legal and political wrangling over the Second Amendment, can fight for reforms that will both respect gun owners’ rights and reduce gun violence.Efforts to reduce gun violence in the United States face formidable political and constitutional barriers. Legislation that would ban or broadly restrict firearms runs afoul of the Supreme Court’s current ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • We'll Fight It Out Here

    A History of the Ongoing Struggle for Health Equity

    How a coalition of Black health professions schools made health equity a national issue.Winner of the Phillis Wheatley Award by the Sons & Daughters of the United States Middle PassageRacism in the US health care system has been deliberately undermining Black health care professionals and exacerbating health disparities among Black Americans for centuries. These health disparities only became a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • We Are Not Okay

    The Pandemic and its Consequences

    Series Book 3 - Sutherland Quarterly
    COVID-19 made almost five million Canadians sick, put hundreds of thousands in hospital, and claimed over 50,000 lives. The numbers are startling yet they don’t begin to capture the enormity of what we endured in our three-year ordeal, nor the fact that it’s not over. Many people are still grieving loved ones, many survivors are still grappling with long covid, and many continue to experience the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Vulnerabilità, carcere e nuove tecnologie

    Prospettive di ricerca sul diritto alla salute

    Il presente volume raccoglie otto saggi frutto di altrettante esperienze di ricerca sociologica in ambito giuridico, accomunati tra loro dalla circostanza di fondare la propria analisi su una prospettiva marcatamente interdisciplinare. Tale prospettiva, da una parte, comporta una serie di questioni già a livello epistemologico, dall'altra, solleva ulteriori nodi critici con riferimento alla piena ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Visions of Cannabis Control

    Visions of Cannabis Control argues that cannabis prohibition is the result of moral panic that has been instigated, perpetuated, and sustained in ways that are difficult to dislodge. The book documents the history of these cannabis policies and explores the impact of issues such as racism, labelling, and stigmatization. Stan Cohen argued that reforms designed to replace carceral tendencies within ... Read more

    $130.99 USD

  • Violence Rewired

    Evidence and Strategies for Public Health Action

    This thought-provoking book draws together research from genetics, anthropology, psychology and the social sciences to show that widespread assumptions about the inevitability of human violence are almost entirely a collection of myths. While violence has been a recurring feature of human life, there is no reason to suppose that it is inherent in 'human nature'. On the contrary, patterns of ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Values in Medicine

    What are We Really Doing to Patients?

    by Donald Evans ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    Written by a leading proponent of the philosophy and ethics of healthcare, this volume is filled with thought-provoking and frequently controversial ideas and arguments. Accessibly written, it provides readers with a timely contribution to the current literature on medical ethics, in which the concept of subjectivity is a key issue characterizing current medical humanities.Examining the critical ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Vaccine Court

    The Law and Politics of Injury

    by Anna Kirkland ...
    A behind-the-scenes examination of the special court dedicated to claims that vaccines have caused harmThe so-called vaccine court is a small special court in the United States Court of Federal Claims that handles controversial claims that a vaccine has harmed someone. While vaccines in general are extremely safe and effective, some people still suffer severe vaccine reactions and bring their ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Utilizzo delle sostanze chimiche e profili di responsabilità individuale e societaria ex d.lgs. 231/2001

    L'e-book nasce dall’esigenza di fornire un quadro organico della legislazione vigente in materia di utilizzo di sostanze chimiche, miscele ed articoli.Viene riassunta la complessa normativa sulle sostanze chimiche, contenuta nei regolamenti REACH e CLP, anche in relazione alle possibili conseguenze sanzionatorie.Vengono poi esaminate le sue implicazioni con la normativa sulla salute e sicurezza ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Updated Evidence and Policy Developments on Reducing Gun Violence in America

    This digital update to Reducing Gun Violence in America presents new evidence and developments in the effort to address the staggering toll of gun violence in the United States.In 2013—in the wake of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School—Johns Hopkins University Press published Reducing Gun Violence in America, a collection of essays written by the world’s leading experts on gun ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Unprocessed

    How the Food We Eat Is Fuelling Our Mental Health Crisis

    We all know that as a nation our mental health is in crisis. But what most don't know is that a critical ingredient in this debate, and a crucial part of the solution - what we eat - is being ignored.Nutrition has more influence on what we feel, who we become and how we behave than we could ever have imagined. It affects everything from our decision-making to aggression and violence. Yet mental ... Read more

    $23.99 USD $12.99 USD