... in increasing numbers to stable patients in their homes. This paper examines the medical aspects, the economic issues, and the legal implications of such transfusions. Candidates for home transfusion must be carefully chosen primarily according to the medical guidelines for such treatment. Any legal issues must...

...Timothy E. Quill Linda L. Emanuel, ed. Regulating How We Die: The Ethical, Medical,and Legal Issues Surrounding Physician-Assisted Suicide. Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 1998. 304 pp. $39.95 cloth; $18.95 paper. © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 American Medical Association...

... describe key characteristics of the cases and the women, including socioeconomic status and race. Second, we investigate the legal claims made to justify the arrests, detentions, and forced interventions. Third, we explore the role played by health care providers. We conclude by discussing the implications...

... and services. Enforcement efforts confront problems of proof, remedies whose effectiveness may be blunted by underlying residential segregation patterns, and a judiciary closed to legal challenges focusing on discriminatory impact rather than intentional discrimination. But Title VI enforcement has experienced...

...Laurence R. Tancredi This paper addresses some of the ethical and legal issues involving the rights of psychiatric patients to refuse treatment. Particular attention is focused on two recently decided cases— Rogers v. Okins , and Rennie v. Klein —that deal with the rights of involuntarily committed...

... 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 Sweden’s Crisis in Medical Care: Political and Legal Changes Richard M. Hessler and Andrew C. Twaddle, University of Missouri -Columbia Abstract. This research focuses on the political system behind...

...James D. Chesney The goal of having local health planning agencies represent their communities is considered. A basic premise is that the legal structure of an agency is related to how well a community is represented. This premise is tested, and two strategies are presented for building HSAs which...

...Douglas A. Hastings Increasingly, medical peer-review organizations are entering into contracts with insurance companies and self-insured employers to conduct utilization reviews and quality-of-care assessments. Such private review activities raise new legal issues, requiring analysis of state law...

...John H. Noble, Jr.; Joseph J. Bevilacqua Stanley S. Herr, Stephen Arons, and E. Wallace Wallace, Jr. Legal Rights and Mental-Health Care (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1983). 180 pp. $22.95 Copyright © 1984 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1984...

... 1984 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1984 Restraint of Tkade through Hospital Exclusive Contracts: An Economic Appraisal of the Legal Theory William J. Lynk, Lexecon Inc. Abstract. The growth of antitrust litigation in the health care...

...Troyen A. Brennan; Robert F. Carter How to evaluate and apply probabilistic scientific evidence that cancer (or other diseases) have been caused by chemical substances (or other environmental agents) constitutes a critical problem which must be addressed by legal institutions. This article analyzes...

...John A. Robertson The controversy over nontreatment of handicapped newborns arises in a context of criminal and civil law, against which the current controversy has unfolded. This article examines the legal setting and background under traditional criminal and civil law concepts of nontreatment...

...Scott L. Greer Cohen I. Glenn , ed. The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues . New York : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 454+xxiv pp. $95.00 cloth. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 The American health care industry, as this book argues...

...-2 ): 61 -71. Parmet , W E. Forthcoming. The Police Power and AIDS: The Limits of Legal Precedent. Journal of Health and Human Resources Administration . Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. 1988 . Report of the Presidential Commission on the Human...

...Leon S. Robertson Although most research on the effect of minimum legal drinking age (LDA) laws on proxies for alcohol-related fatalities find effects of higher LDAs in reducing such fatalities, recent research that supposedly controls for drinking experience claims that higher LDAs have little...

... in and implementation of patient safety measures may not occur without considering important legal issues that may impede these health policy efforts. Tort and contract law may interact with the vagaries of managed care to limit participation in these error reduction efforts by health care providers as well...

... of Economics 111 : 353 -390. Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). 1994 . Defensive Medicine and Medical Malpractice. Washington, DC: OTA. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Marshall B. Kapp. Our Hands Are Tied: Legal Tensions and Medical Ethics. Westport, CT: Auburn House, 1998...

... of health care services, their use to establish culpability in actual cases may be more difficult because the structure of legal reasoning focuses on the particular facts in the case at hand rather than appealing to abstract decision procedures. By highlighting the potential difficulties of invoking...

...Theodore R. Marmor Colleen M. Flood, Kent Roach, and Lorne Sossin, eds. Access to Care, Access to Justice: The Legal Debate over Private Health Insurance in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 611 pp. $37.95 cloth Duke University Press 2006...

... the political route and the interests of different actors to understand the process by which industrial interests are translated into legal realities in the world's largest harmonized market. Several factors influenced the outcome, including the role of the pharmaceutical unit of the Directorate General...