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Reliable source on medical liability law. Written by experts in the
field, this Nutshell offers insight on establishing professional
relationships and examines negligence-based claims, intentional
torts, causation, damages, affirmative defenses, limitations,
immunities, and liabilities. It also provides an overview of
medical care liability issues affecting hospitals and managed care
organizations.
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 emergence
from the West during African Ebola epidemics. The author concludes
that while the U.S. military and other organizations prided
themselves on their belated responses to this outbreak oftentimes
journalists, scientists, and others overlooked the contributions
that were made by contract tracers and indigenous public health
workers. Sadly, the 2013-2015 West African outbreak took the lives
of thousands of individuals, and the author contends that this
contributed to sensationalist ways of representing local burial and
food habits. The book concludes by noting that while many West
African leaders appreciated the billions of dollars of promised aid
that would flow toward this region in the wake of the Ebola
outbreak real "health security" measures have to involve longer
term infrastructural changes. Talk of how Westerners rescued the
West Africans need to be augmented with more nuanced ways of
thinking about how many of those who actually battled Ebola need to
become part of future conversations regarding everything from
theories of "aerial" transmission to the steps that need to be
taken during the first few weeks of recorded outbreaks.
Relational theory has recently gained prominence in
philosophy,
women's and gender studies, and bioethics. Yet it has not
made
substantial inroads into many areas of law and policy. Being
Relational seeks to remedy this situation by bringing this
powerful theoretical framework to the field of health law and
policy.
At the heart of relational theory lies the idea that the human
self
is fundamentally constituted in terms of its relations to others.
For
relational theorists, the self not only lives in relationship with
and
to others, but also owes its very existence to such relationships.
In
this groundbreaking collection, leading relational theorists
explore
the key concepts of autonomy, judgment, equality, justice,
memory,
identity, and conscience. In response, health policy and law
scholars
analyze how such considerations might be brought to bear on
pressing
issues such as reproduction, allocation of scarce resources,
Aboriginal
health, mental health, and animal experimentation.
Innovative and self-reflexive, Being Relational makes a
bold contribution to law and policy studies that will appeal to a
broad
range of scholars, especially those with an interest in social
justice,
and who seek to challenge oppression and understand the complex
ways in
which power is created and sustained relationally.
Jocelyn Downie is a professor of law and medicine and
a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy at Dalhousie
University. She is a member of the Canadian Academy of Health
Sciences
and the Royal Society of Canada. Jennifer J. Llewellyn
is an associate professor of law at Dalhousie University, and
director
of the Nova Scotia Restorative Justice Community University
Research
Alliance.
Following the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act
(ACA), librarians are more frequently called upon to provide
assistance with navigating the Health Insurance Marketplace and
understanding health insurance terminology and forms. Libraries
offer an ideal context for health insurance information seeking, as
librarians have traditionally assisted with completing public
assistance forms and are well-trained in ascertaining and meeting
information needs. This book is designed to serve as a practical
guide for librarians seeking to learn more about the ACA; locate
authoritative, nonbiased information regarding the ACA; and serve
patrons searching for ACA information for personal or research
purposes. While the book focuses specifically on the unique role
that health sciences librarians play in serving the general public,
health care providers, biomedical researchers, and health sciences
students, the book contains guidance relevant to any information
professional working with ACA information. Tailored to a librarian
audience, this authoritative guide from the Medical Library
Association begins with a general introduction to the Affordable
Care Act, highlighting the aspects of the ACA legislation most
pertinent to librarians. The following chapter focuses on the role
of the librarian in relation to ACA implementation. Next, a chapter
on health insurance literacy provides a foundation for those
seeking to familiarize themselves with research on individuals'
understanding of health insurance concepts. The following chapter
builds on this foundation, discussing how a librarian can breakdown
an ACA question, including a step-by-step guide. The last part of
the book focuses on trends in ACA and health insurance information
provision. It begins with a general overview of the types of ACA
information services librarians are providing. Next, ten librarians
are highlighted as case studies of the types on information
services provided by health sciences librarians responding to ACA
information needs. These chapters are designed to serve as
springboards for those librarians interested in learning best
practices and recommendations. The last chapter contains an
authoritative list of recommended, unbiased ACA resources. This
annotated bibliography is an excellent place for librarians to
familiarize themselves with ACA logistical information as well as
locate authoritative resources on insurance terminology. As
librarians are increasingly being called upon to address health
insurance information needs from the general public as well as
researchers, this text provides concrete, helpful advice in
providing unbiased, evidence-based answers.
Following the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act
(ACA), librarians are more frequently called upon to provide
assistance with navigating the Health Insurance Marketplace and
understanding health insurance terminology and forms. Libraries
offer an ideal context for health insurance information seeking, as
librarians have traditionally assisted with completing public
assistance forms and are well-trained in ascertaining and meeting
information needs. This book is designed to serve as a practical
guide for librarians seeking to learn more about the ACA; locate
authoritative, nonbiased information regarding the ACA; and serve
patrons searching for ACA information for personal or research
purposes. While the book focuses specifically on the unique role
that health sciences librarians play in serving the general public,
health care providers, biomedical researchers, and health sciences
students, the book contains guidance relevant to any information
professional working with ACA information. Tailored to a librarian
audience, this authoritative guide from the Medical Library
Association begins with a general introduction to the Affordable
Care Act, highlighting the aspects of the ACA legislation most
pertinent to librarians. The following chapter focuses on the role
of the librarian in relation to ACA implementation. Next, a chapter
on health insurance literacy provides a foundation for those
seeking to familiarize themselves with research on individuals'
understanding of health insurance concepts. The following chapter
builds on this foundation, discussing how a librarian can breakdown
an ACA question, including a step-by-step guide. The last part of
the book focuses on trends in ACA and health insurance information
provision. It begins with a general overview of the types of ACA
information services librarians are providing. Next, ten librarians
are highlighted as case studies of the types on information
services provided by health sciences librarians responding to ACA
information needs. These chapters are designed to serve as
springboards for those librarians interested in learning best
practices and recommendations. The last chapter contains an
authoritative list of recommended, unbiased ACA resources. This
annotated bibliography is an excellent place for librarians to
familiarize themselves with ACA logistical information as well as
locate authoritative resources on insurance terminology. As
librarians are increasingly being called upon to address health
insurance information needs from the general public as well as
researchers, this text provides concrete, helpful advice in
providing unbiased, evidence-based answers.
This casebook covers contemporary issues in bioethics ranging from
reproductive choice to decision making about death. It teaches
legal doctrine through judicial opinions and statutes; it teaches
analytical and practical skills through a diverse set of problems.
The casebook also enables students to think broadly about
regulatory issues by supplementing traditional legal materials with
patients' accounts of their illnesses, doctors' reports of their
encounters with patients, ethicists' reflections, and researchers'
findings on how medical decisions are made, the results those
decisions produce, and the impact of various forms of legal
regulation. Finally, the casebook encourages students to use the
law of bioethics as a window into larger questions about the role
of law as a form of social regulation and the impact of American
culture on the development of law and regulatory strategy.
Expert authors present an up-to-date overview of health law as it
affects the professionals, institutions, and entities that deliver
and finance health care in the United States. Considers the law's
response to quality and error through institutional and
professional regulation, and malpractice litigation against
professionals, hospitals, and managed care organizations. Surveys
tax, corporate, and organizational issues. Explores the
government's efforts to control costs and expand access through
Medicare and Medicaid. Examines government attempts to police
anticompetitive activities, fraud, and abuse. And considers the
legal and ethical issues involving death, human reproduction,
medical treatment decision making, and medical research. The
Affordable Care Act, HIPAA, HITECH, and other new statutory and
regulatory changes of the past few years are thoroughly
incorporated in all aspects of the legal discussion.
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