Health Care Law and Ethics

Hardcover: 1,400+ pages
ISBN 0735563500
978-0735563506
Aspen Health Care Compliance Center
October 2007
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Health Care Law and Ethics, was one of the first casebooks to face the formidable task of providing adequate coverage of the multiple areas where law and medicine intersect.

This edition continues that tradition by being well-suited for professional use or for use in a survey course in health care law or a more focused study of malpractice or bioethics. The crucial issues of quality, ethics, access, and cost are considered throughout the book. Strong coverage of bioethics provides important contextual background for discussions of the right to die, reproductive rights, organ transplants and more.

The authors address cutting-edge issues, such as genetics and managed care along with such standard topics as confidentiality, medical malpractice, public health law, and health care financing and regulation. Clear author notes provide context and background information, and smooth the transitions between cases. This edition provides new coverage of today's most urgent issues:

oversight of medical research, including genetic research and cloning,
HMO liability,
Patient Bill of Rights, and
new privacy rules and bioterrorism.

It includes an improved and expanded treatment of ERISA preemption. This book provides coverage of major new cases, including:

Oregon's assisted suicide law cases;
California medical marijuana case;
Aetna v. Davila (2004) on managed care liability and ERISA pre-emption;
Medicare Part D covering prescription drugs;
Rush Prudential v. Moran and Pegram v. Herdich (regulation of managed care),
Ferguson v. City of Charleston (reporting drug test results to law enforcement)
J.B. v. M.B. (disposition of frozen embryos).

New coverage of todays' most urgent issues includes oversight of medical research, including genetic research and cloning, HMO liability, Patient Bill of Rights, and new privacy rules and bioterrorism.

This book includes these contents:

The Provider and the Patient
- The Treatment Relationship: Formation and Termination
- The Treatment Relationship: Confidentiality, Consent, and Conflicts of Interest
- Medical Malpractice

The Patient, The Provider, and the State
- The Right and "Duty" to Die
- Organ Transplantation: The Control, Use, and Allocation of Body Parts
- Reproductive Rights
- Public Health Law

Institutions, Providers, and the State
- Health Care Financing and Reform
- Regulation of Health Care Facilities and Transactions

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