Research Catalog

Title

Legal medicine / American College of Legal Medicine.

Publication

St. Louis : Mosby Year Book, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

American College of Legal Medicine

Description

xiii, 754 p.; 29 cm.

Subjects

• United States
• Physician-Patient Relations
• Jurisprudence
• Medical laws and legislation > United States
• Medical jurisprudence > United States
• Legislation

Genre/Form

Legislation.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Pt. 1. Legal Medicine and Medical Ethics. 1. Legal Medicine, Medical Ethics, and Legal Medicine Education in America / S. Sandy Sanbar and Melinda Thompson -- Pt. 2. Legal Aspects of Health Care. 2. American Legal System / Kenneth D. Hansen. 3. Judicial System / Kenneth D. Hansen. 4. Competency, Capacity, and Immunity / Steven B. Bisbing, Joseph P. McMenamin and Richard L. Granville. 5. Contracts, Agency, and Partnership / Hugh F. Hill III and Joseph P. McMenamin. 6. Civil Trials / Alan C. Hoffman. 7. Alternative Dispute Resolution in Health Care / Irving Ladimer. 8. Selected Health Care Statutory Provisions / James E. Warner and S. Sandy Sanbar. 9. Education and Licensure / S. Sandy Sanbar, Daniel J. Gamino and James E. Warner. 10. Peer Review, Disciplining, Hearings, and Appeals / John T. Burroughs. 11. Health Care Provider as a Defendant / Martin B. Flamm. 12. Medical Malpractice / Alan C. Hoffman.
• 13. Medical Testimony and the Expert Witness / Joseph D. Piorkowski, Jr. 14. Liability of Health Care Entities for Negligent Care / John R. Feegel. 15. Pharmaceutical Product Liability / Martin J. MacNeill. 16. Antitrust / David P. Cluchey and Edward David. 17. Crimes Against and by Health Care Providers and Criminal Procedures / Stan Twardy and S. Sandy Sanbar. 18. Countersuits by Health Care Providers / Bradford H. Lee. 19. Medical Liability Insurance / Richard F. Gibbs and Richard W. Moore, Jr. 20. Risk Management / Richard R. Balsamo and Max Douglas Brown -- Pt. 3. Medical and Ethical Encounters. 21. Physician-Patient Relationship / Matthew L. Howard and Louis B. Vogt. 22. Consent to and Refusal of Medical Treatment / Emidio A. Bianco and Harold L. Hirsh. 23. Medical Records / Harold L. Hirsh. 24. Disclosure about Patients / Harold L. Hirsh. 25. Telephone Contacts and Counseling / William R. Wick and Harvey Katz.
• 26. Ethics and Bioethics / Bernard J. Ficarra. 27. Fetal Interests / Frederick Adolf Paola. 28. Organ Donation and Transplantation / Victor Walter Weedn and Edwin Kellerman. 29. The Process of Dying / Frederick Adolf Paola and John A. Anderson. 30. Physician-Assisted Suicide / Arthur H. Lester. 31. Reproduction Patients / Michael S. Cardwell. 32. Children as Patients / Joseph P. McMenamin and Garland L. Bigley. 33. Geriatric Patients / Marshall B. Kapp. 34. Oncology Patients / Melvin A. Shiffman. 35. Brain-Injured Patients / Clark Watts. 36. Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) / Mike A. Royal. 37. Impaired and Disabled Patients / Allan Gibofsky and Harold L. Hirsh. 38. Pain Management / Wayne Hodges. 39. Occupational Health Law / Carolyn S. Langer. 40. Sports Medicine / Richard S. Goodman. 41. Forensic Use of Medical Information / Cyril H. Wecht. 42. Forensic Pathology / Cyril H. Wecht.
• 43. Psychiatric Patients and Forensic Psychiatry / Marvin H. Firestone -- Pt. 4. Legislative and Business Aspects of Medicine. 44. Practice Organizations and Joint Ventures / Arthur J. Cohen. 45. Coproviders and Institutional Practice / Edward E. Hollowell and Barry H. Bloch. 46. Cost Containment and Reimbursement / Harold L. Hirsh. 47. Physician as an Employer / Charles G. Hess. 48. Medical Technology / C. Gordon Heckel, Max Karl Newman, Donald L. Newman and Steven E. Newman. 49. Research and Experimentation / Cyril H. Wecht.

ISBN

0815101317

LCCN

94043455

OCLC

• 31604493
• ocm31604493
• SCSB-4780376

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries