HCA 333: Health Care Law: Home

Public health law at the turn of the twenty-first century. Analyzes major health threats of such as chronic diseases, emerging infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, bioterrorism, natural disasters, opiod overdose, and gun violence. The authors draw on constitutional law, administrative law, local government law, and tort law to develop their conception of law as a tool for protecting the public's health. The book creates an intellectual framework for modern public health law.

Provides a balanced overview of law as it affects patients, professionals, institutions, and entities that deliver and finance U.S. health care. The book exposes students to the core issues in health law using the most recent judicial and statutory materials.

With exceptional clarity Medical Law and Ethics covers not only the core legal principles, the key cases, and statutes that all govern medical law, but also portrays the key ethic debates and dilemmas that exist in the field to ensure that the law is firmly embedded within its context.