Legal medicine /
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| Edition: | 7th ed. |
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| Imprint: | Philadelphia : Mosby/Elsevier, c2007. |
| Description: | xv, 748 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6645184 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Legal Medicine
- Part One. Medical Licensure, Credentialing And Privileging, Profiling And Impairments
- 2. Medical Practice: Education and Licensure
- 3. Medical Staff Peer Review in the Credentialing and Privileging of Physicians
- 4. Physician Profile Databases
- 5. Health Care Professional Impairment
- Part Two. Business Aspects Of Medical Practice
- 6. Health Care Provider Contracts
- 7. Agency
- 8. Antitrust
- 9. Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- 10. Practice Organizations and Joint Ventures
- 11. Coproviders and Institutional Practice
- 12. Physician as an Employer
- 13. Health Professionals and the Regulated Industry: The Laws and Regulations Enforced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- 14. Health Insurance and Professional Liability Insurance
- 15. Patents, Intellectual Property, and Licenses
- 16. Federal Health Information Privacy Requirements
- Part Three. Medicolegal And Ethical Encounters
- 17. Ethics and Bioethics
- 18. Research and Experimentation
- 19. The Human Genome Project
- 20. Legal Interests of the Fetal Patient
- 21. Organ Donation and Transplantation
- 22. Life Care Planning: Ethical and Legal Issues
- 23. The Process of Dying
- 24. Physician-Assisted Suicide and Palliative Sedation
- Part Four. Professional Medical Liability
- 25. Medical Malpractice Overview
- 26. Patient Safety and Health Care Quality
- 27. Medications Errors
- 28. Disclosure of Adverse Outcome and Apologizing to Injured Patient
- 29. Risk Management
- 30. Alternative Dispute Resolution
- 31. Physicians-Patient Relationship
- 32. Competency and Capacity: A Primer
- 33. Informed Consent to Medical and Surgical Treatment
- 34. Medical Records: Paper and Electronic
- 35. Medical Testimony and the Expert Witness
- 36. Liability of Health Care Entities for Negligent Care
- 37. Liability of Managed Care Organizations
- 38. Pharmacist Malpractice and Liability
- 39. Medical Product Liability
- 40. Telemedicine and Electronic Mail Communication with Patients
- 41. Professional Liability in Emergency Medicine
- 42. Legal Issues in Newborn Intensive Care
- 43. Liability in Obstetrics and Gynecology
- 44. Liability of Ophthalmologists
- 45. Liability of Otolaryngologists
- 46. Liability of Radiologists
- 47. Liability of Neurologists
- 48. Liability of Plastic Surgeons
- 49. Nursing and the Law
- 50. Dental Litigation: Triad of Concerns
- 51. Criminalization of Medical Negligence
- 52. Crimes by Health Care Providers
- 53. Countersuits by Health Care Providers
- 54. No-Fault Medical Malpractice System in New Zealand
- Part Five. Care Of Special Patients
- 55. Children as Patients
- 56. Child Abuse
- 57. Domestic Violence Patients
- 58. Geriatric Patients
- 59. Cancer Genetics: Discrimination And Counseling
- 60. Brain-Injured Patients
- 61. Patients with HIV Infection and AIDS
- 62. The Law and the Relief of Pain: Pain Management
- 63. Sports Medicine
- Part Six. Forensic Science And Medicine
- 64. Forensic Pathology
- 65. Forensic Engineering
- 66. Forensic Toxicology
- 67. Forensic Psychiatry
- 68. Criminalistics
- 69. Forensic Entomology
- 70. Forensic Odontology
- 71. Utilization of Forensic Science in the Civil and Criminal Justice Systems: Forensic Use of Medical Information
- Part. Seven
- 72. Occupational Health Law
- 73. Public Health Law
- 74. Legal Aspects Of Bioterrorism
- Part Eight. International Contributions
- 75. Physician Licensing and Disciplining in England and Europe
- 76. Privacy
- 77. Drivers and the Law
