Public policy responses to escalating medical costs and constrained access pose fundamental challenges to health care law. Profound medical advances also generate many ethical dilemmas. This authoritative discussion considers how law and ethics respond to these driving social, economic, and political forces of innovation, crisis, and reform. Topics include health care finance and delivery structures, treatment relationships, facility and insurance regulation, corporate and tax law, refusal of life support, organ donation, and reproductive technologies.
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Aspen Online Study Aid Library
After your casebook, a Casenote Legal Brief is your most important reference source for the entire semester. Expert case studies and analyses and quicknote definitions of legal terms help you prepare for class discussion. Here is why you need Casenote Legal Briefs to help you understand cases in your most difficult courses: Each Casenote includes expert case summaries, which include the black letter law, facts, majority opinion, concurrences, and dissents, as well as analysis of the case. There is a Casenote for you! With dozens of Casenote Legal Briefs, you can find the Casenote to work with your assigned casebook and give you the extra understanding of all cases Casenotes in 1L subjects include a Quick Course Outline to help you understand the relationships between course topics.
This book gives an in-depth overview of issues and problems that currently exist in this interesting area of law. As a law student, this book can be useful in providing concise portrayals of issues facing the health industry from all angles, not just legal perspectives
Mental health law is a unique body of statutory and case law intended to protect and assist citizens with mental illness. This Nutshell describes this important field of law. Mental illness and intellectual disability (formerly called mental retardation) impact 20% of Americans, and have enormous personal, legal, and policy implications for patients, families, and society. This Nutshell introduces you to the broad range of criminal and civil issues in mental health law, including diagnosis of mental illness; expert testimony on mental health issues; civil commitment; competence to stand trial; the insanity defense; various competencies; ethical/legal issues facing mental health professionals, including informed consent, confidentiality, privilege, and malpractice; discrimination against persons with mental illness; financial and medical benefits for disabled persons.
WestLaw E-Treatise
This book brings you the insights and knowledge of 19 national health law experts on some of the most important and cutting edge issues in health law today in 14 separate and entirely new articles organized around four significant themes driving health law challenges today: (1) quality; (2) fraud and abuse; (3) regulation in specified industry segments; and (4) communication issues with legal liabilities.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a free service the law library provides to give you access to materials such as books, journal articles, book chapters, videos, and other materials that are not available in the North Carolina Central University Libraries. The NCCU Law Library uses the ILLiad platform to help patrons submit requests faster, track progress easier, and manage their accounts online at any time.
Find books, ebooks, journals, movies and music, government documents, and more from all Triangle Research Library Network libraries (Duke, UNC-CH, NCSU, NCCU, Law Libraries, etc.)
PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally. The PubMed database contains more than 30 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. It does not include full-text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC).
University Press Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable library which offers access to over 12,000 books on a variety of topics including Biology, Business and Management, Economics and Finance, History, Law, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health and Epidemiology, and Social Work.
Consumers can visit this section of the Justia Legal Guides to learn about issues involving health insurance, as well as government benefits programs Medicare and Medicaid. The Health Care Law Center also addresses topics specific to the LGBTQ+ community and to veterans of the U.S. armed forces.
Sources Available Through Westlaw and Lexis
Westlaw and Lexis are great resources to use when conducting research in the area of health law. A few of the topics covered on each site are in the images below. This is not a comprehensive list.