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This is a comprehensive reference text that examines the current state of Legal Medicine, which encompasses Forensic Medicine, in the 21st century. It examines the scope of both legal and forensic medicine, its application and study and has adopted a wide ranging approach including multinational aut...
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Springer Reference,
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| Publisher Address: | Heidelberg : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32338-6 |
| Summary: |
This is a comprehensive reference text that examines the current state of Legal Medicine, which encompasses Forensic Medicine, in the 21st century. It examines the scope of both legal and forensic medicine, its application and study and has adopted a wide ranging approach including multinational authorship. It reviews the differences between and similarities of forensic and legal medicine, the need for academic qualification, the applications to many and varied fields including international aid, military medicine, health law and the application of medical knowledge to both criminal law and tort/civil law, sports medicine and law, gender and age related factors from obstetrics through to geriatrics and palliative care as well as cultural differences exploring the Christian/Judeo approach compared with that within Islamic cultures, Buddhism and Hinduism. The book will look at practical applications of legal medicine within various international and intercultural frameworks. This will be a seminal authoritative text in legal and forensic medicine. It has a multi-author and multinational approach which will cross national boundaries. There is a great interest in the development of health law and legal medicine institutes around the world and this text will come in on the ground floor of this burgeoning discipline and will provide the foundation text for many courses, both undergraduate and postgraduate. It will define the place of legal medicine as a specialized discipline. |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xxxi, 1845 pages) : illustrations |
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9783642323386 (electronic bk.) 3642323383 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | RA1051 |
| CLC: | D919 |
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Definitions and Concepts. Clinical Bioethics and Its Interface with Legal Medicine / Contravention of Statute Obligations / Legal Medicine in Adult Medical Practice in Australia / Legal Medicine and Dentistry / Concepts in Medical Law and Legal Medicine / Legal and Forensic Medicine in Paediatrics / Legal and Forensic Medicine in Geriatrics / Legal Medicine and Medical Law / Evidence-Based Medicine and the Law / Legal Medicine and Criminal Law: Australia / Forensic Medicine: A Clinician's View / Law, Health Law and Science of Health Law / International Perspectives. Legal Medicine in Turkey / Teaching Medical Law: The Genesis and Directions of Legal Medicine in Australia / Legal Medicine in the Administration of Health Care / Health-Care System Regulation in Brazil and in Great Britain / Medical and Health Law in the Czech Republic / Evidence-Based Forensic Medicine: A Canadian Perspective / Medico Legal Organization in Portugal and Legal Medicine / Forensic Institutional Practice in Central America and Panama / Establishment of a Patient Ombudsman Scheme / Dento-legal Medicine / Occupational and Environmental Medicine: Applications and Implications to Forensic Medicine / Medical Tourism Vendors and Legal Jurisdiction / Legal Framework for Nursing Practice in New Zealand / Legal and Forensic Medicine: UK and Australia / Legal Medicine in the United States of America (USA) / Legal and Forensic Medicine: A Sri Lankan Perspective / Legal and Forensic Medicine in Israel / Law and the Medical-Man: The Challenges of an Expanding Interface / Health-Care Reform in the United States of America / Forensic Identification in the Australian Defence Force / Forensic Medicine and Medical Law in Modern Russia / Legal Medicine and Forensic System in Portugal / Negligence, Malpractice and Liability. Medical Liability: Comparing "Civil Law" and "Common Law" / Medical Malpractice Liability / Defensive Medicine and Clinical Risk Management / Medical Indemnity Insurance in Australia / Explaining Causation of Injury - An Australian Case Study / No Fault Compensation: The New Zealand Experience / Medical Law in Common Law Jurisdictions (New Zealand) (No-fault) / Understanding Medical Liability / Notification and Disease Control: Obligations of the Medical Practitioner Under Public Health Legislation / Psychology and Psychiatry. Legal and Forensic Medicine in Clinical Psychiatry / Sexual Abuse - Current Medico-legal, Forensic and Psychiatric Aspects / Suicide and Violence in US Colleges: Legal and Clinical Perspectives / Hypothetical Legal Questions and the Psychiatric Expert / Clinical Neuropsychology and the Assessment of Capacity / Communication as a Risk Management Tool for Psychiatry / Legal Issues in Psychiatry / Informed Consent. Patient Consent Conversation / Informed Consent and Medical Law / Interpreting Informed Consent by Stealth / Informed Consent in Saudi Arabia / Practice of Legal Medicine in Japan: Informed Consent in Research / Informed Consent and Informed Refusal: A Developing Country Perspective / Expert Evidence. Role of Medical Experts in Courts Under Turkish Law / Legal Medicine Report Preparation in Australia -- Giving Expert Evidence: A Guide / Law of Evidence: Main Principles / Providing Expert Evidence in an Australian Court: A Lawyer's View / Expert Evidence - the Decision Maker's Perspective / Ethics. Doctors and Torture in Medical Law / Bioethics - Azerbaijan / Ethical Standards for Clinical Trials / Pediatric Clinical Trials / Open Disclosure: Ethical and Cultural Considerations / Inheritance, End of Life. Wills and Estates: Succession Law and Testamentary Capacity / Legal Aspects of End-of-Life Decisions in Neonatology / Mental Capacity Considerations in Powers of Attorney and Enduring Guardianship / Advance Directives for Medical Decisions / Clinical Medicine. Legal Issues in Neurology - Observations on American Medical Jurisprudence / Legal Medicine and Drug-Resistant TB in South Africa / Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Medical Law / Follow Up of Surgical Patients and Legal Medicine / Abortion Law in Ireland / Evidence Collection in Cases of Sexual Assault / Asbestos-Related Diseases - Their Aetiology and Medico-legal Issues: An Overview / Shaken Baby Syndrome and the Legal Perspective / Conventions. Article 9 of the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine / European Convention of Human Rights and Biomedicine / Dispute Resolution. Regulations on Mediation in the Belgian Health Care System / Current Status and Legal Treatments of Medical Disputes in China / Medical Dispute in Indonesia Health / Driving. Law and Science of Driving Under the Influence / Driving Fitness and Legal Medicine in Australia / Genetics, Reproduction, Stem Cells. Ethics of Genetic Screening / Legal and Ethical Issues in Stem Cell Research in South Africa / Surrogacy Under French Law: Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues / Regulation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells in Europe / Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing Services: Policies and Challenges / Therapeutics. Off-Label Use of Medication / Off Licence Use of Medications / Privacy. Data Protection in eHealth Platforms / Legal Maintenance of Patient Data Confidentiality in the Russian Federation / Privacy and Confidentiality: The Doctor's Obligations / Comparing Medical Record Ownership and Access: Australia, Canada, UK, USA / Law of Defamation: Overview / Biotechnology & Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property and Medical Biotechnologies / Global Regulation of Nanotechnologies and Their Products in Medicine / Computer Technology in Medical Practice and Its Impact on the Delivery of Health Care / Product Liability in Medicine / |