Legal medicine
By: American College of Legal Medicine Textbook Committee ; S. Sandy Sanbar, editor ; Marvin H. Firestone, deputy editor ; Sal Fiscina ... [et al.] past president.
Contributors: Sanbar, Shafeek S.; American College of Legal Medicine.
Edition: 7th ed.
Publisher: Mosby/Elsevier
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 748
ISBN-13: 9780323037532
Subjects: Medical laws and legislation -- United States.; Jurisprudence -- United States.; Legislation, Medical -- United States.; Physician-Patient Relations -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: legal medicine; value: Medical practice: education and licensure; value: Medical staff peer review in the credentialing and privileging and impairment of physicians; value: Physician profile databases; value: Health care professional impairment; value: Health care provider contracts; value: Agency; value: Antitrust; value: Complementary and alternative medicine; value: Practice organizations and joint ventures; value: Coproviders and institutional practice; value: Physician as an employer; value: Health professionals and the regulated industry: the laws and regulations enforced by the U.S. food drug and administration; value: Health insurance and professional liability insurance; value: Patents, intellectual property, and licenses; value: Federal health information privacy requirements; value: Ethics and bioethics; value: Research and experimentation; value: The human genome project; value: Legal interests of the fetal patient; value: Organ donation and transplantation; value: Life care planning: ethical and legal issues; value: The process of dying; value: ^Physician-assisted suicide and palliative sedation; value: Medical malpractice overview; value: Patient safety and health care quality; value: Medication errors; value: Disclosure of adverse outcome and apologizing to the injured patient; value: Risk management; value: Alternative dispute resolution; value: Physician-patient relationship; value: Competency and capacity: a primer; value: Informed consent to medical and surgical treatment; value: Medical records: paper and electronic; value: Medical testimony and the expert witness; value: Liability of health care for entities negligent care; value: Liability of managed care organizations; value: Pharmacist malpractice and liability; value: Medical product liability; value: Telemedicine and electronic mail communication with patients; value: Professional liability in emergency medicine; value: Legal issues in newborn intensvie care; value: Liability in obstetrics and gynecology; value: Liability of ophthalmologists; value: Liability of otolaryngologists; value: Liability of radiologists; value: Liability of neurologists; value: ^Liability of plastic surgeons; value: Nursing and the law; value: Dental litigation: triad of concerns; value: Criminalization of medical negligence; value: Crimes by health care providers; value: Countersuits by health care providers; value: No-fault medical malpractice system in New Zealand; value: Children as patients; value: Child abuse; value: Domestic violence patients; value: Geriatric patients; value: Oncology patients; value: Brain-injured patients; value: Patients with HIV infection and AIDS; value: The law and the relief of pain: pain management; value: Sports medicine; value: Forensic pathology; value: Forensic engineering; value: Forensic toxicology; value: Psychiatric patients and forensic psychiatry; value: Criminalistics; value: Forensic entomology; value: Forensic odontology; value: Utilization of forensic science in the civil and criminal justice systems: forensic use of medical information; value: Occupational health law; value: Public health law; value: Legal aspects of bioterrorism; value: Physician licensing and disciplining in England and Europe; value: Privacy; value: Drivers and the law.