Consumer Genetic Technologies Ethical and Legal Considerations (Paperback or Softback) by I. GlennCohen Paperback, Published 2021 by Cambridge University Press 2021-09-16, Cambridge ISBN-13: 978-1-108-81267-2, ISBN: 1-108-81267-8
Patients with Passports(1st Edition) Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics by I. GlennCohen Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2014 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-021818-8, ISBN: 0-19-021818-5
"Can your employer require you to travel to India for a hip replacement as a condition of insurance coverage? If injury results, can you sue the doctor, hospital or insurer for medical malpractice in the country where you live? Can a country prohibit its citizens from helping a relative travel to Switzerland for assisted suicide? What about travel for abortion? In Patients with Passports, I. Glenn Cohen tackles these important questions, ..."
The Globalization of Health Care(1st Edition) Legal and Ethical Issues by I. GlennCohen Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 2013 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-991790-7, ISBN: 0-19-991790-6
"The Globalization of Health Care is the first book to offer a comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of the most interesting and broadest reaching development in health care of the last twenty years: its globalization. It ties together the manifestation of this globalization in four related subject areas - medical tourism, medical migration (the physician "brain drain"), telemedicine, and pharmaceutical research and development, and i ..."
"Historically and across societies people with disabilities have been stigmatized and excluded from social opportunities on a variety of culturally specific grounds. In this collection, the authors explore the impact that the philosophical framing of disability can have on public policy questions, in the clinic, in the courtroom, and elsewhere. They examine the implications of this understanding for legal and policy approaches to disabil ..."
"When data from all aspects of our lives can be relevant to our health - from our habits at the grocery store and our Google searches to our FitBit data and our medical records - can we really differentiate between big data and health big data? Will health big data be used for good, such as to improve drug safety, or ill, as in insurance discrimination? Will it disrupt health care (and the health care system) as we know it? Will it be po ..."
"Readings in Comparative Health Law and Bioethics examines how different countries around the world approach the same challenges in health care law and ethics: how to finance care for as many people as possible; how to ensure quality care; how to best secure patients' rights; how to regulate abortion, end of life decision-making, and assisted reproduction; and how to manage infectious diseases, tobacco use, and human subject research. Th ..."
"Medical Liability and Treatment Relationships is based on Part I, The Provider and the Patient, of parent book Health Care Law and Ethics, and adds additional coverage of professional licensure and regulating access to drugs, and new cases and materials covering medical malpractice. Integrating public health, financial and ethical issues, this casebook uses compelling case law, clear notes and comprehensive background information to ill ..."
"Health Care Law and Ethics, Ninth Edition offers a relationship-oriented approach to health law--covering the essentials, as well as topical and controversial subjects. The book provides thoughtful and teachable coverage of every aspect of health care law. Current and classic cases build logically from the fundamentals of the patient/provider relationship to the role of government and institutions in health care. The book is adaptable t ..."
"A deep look at the role of behavioral "nudges" for improving health.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLBehavioral nudges are everywhere: calorie counts on menus, automated text reminders to encourage medication adherence, a reminder bell when a driver’s seatbelt isn’t fastened. Designed to help people make better health choices, these reminders have become so commonplace that they often go unnoticed. In Nu ..."
"Daniel Hausman suggests that we can do this via an appeal to “benchmark”
environments.33 Whether a feature is disadvantageous will depend on the
environment: pale skin, for example, is advantageous in climates with very little
direct sun ..."
"Transparency is a concept that is becoming increasingly lauded as a solution to a host of problems in the American health care system. Transparency initiatives show great promise, including empowering patients and other stakeholders to make more efficient decisions, improve resource allocation, and better regulate the health care industry. Nevertheless, transparency is not a cure-all for the problems facing the modern health care system ..."
"Transparency is a concept that is becoming increasingly lauded as a solution to a host of problems in the American health care system. Transparency initiatives show great promise, including empowering patients and other stakeholders to make more efficient decisions, improve resource allocation, and better regulate the health care industry. Nevertheless, transparency is not a cure-all for the problems facing the modern health care system ..."
"Legal, regulatory, and ethical perspectives on balancing social benefit and human autonomy in research using human biospecimens.Advances in medicine often depend on the effective collection, storage, research use, and sharing of human biological specimens and associated data. But what about the sources of such specimens? When a blood specimen is drawn from a vein in your arm, is that specimen still you? Is it your property, intellectual ..."
"The current framework for the regulation of human subjects research emerged largely in reaction to the horrors of Nazi human experimentation, revealed at the Nuremburg trials, and the Tuskegee syphilis study, conducted by U.S. government researchers from 1932 to 1972. This framework, combining elements of paternalism with efforts to preserve individual autonomy, has remaine ..."
"... such as in criminal law contexts or – as is the subject of this chapter – in the case of public figures.9 2 3 5 6 7 See ... Wired (May 1, 2019), www .wired.com/story/the-us-urgently-needs-new-genetic-privacy-laws/; Antonio Regalado, ..."
"For example, as Wolfgang Pietsch demonstrates in an analysis of two widely
used algorithms in data mining (classificatory trees and nonparametric
regression), these algorithms will only identify the causal connections needed to
reliably predict and manipulate a phenomenon if (1) the data in the training set
include the parameters that are causally relevant, (2) the data do not contain too
many parameters that are causally irrelevan ..."
Patients with Passports(1st Edition) Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics by I. GlennCohen Hardcover, 528 Pages, Published 2014 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-997509-9, ISBN: 0-19-997509-4
"Can your employer require you to travel to India for a hip replacement as a condition of insurance coverage? If injury results, can you sue the doctor, hospital or insurer for medical malpractice in the country where you live? Can a country prohibit its citizens from helping a relative travel to Switzerland for assisted suicide? What about travel for abortion? In Patients with Passports, I. Glenn Cohen tackles these important questions, ..."