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OverviewLegal Medicine explores the legal issues that arise from government policy influencing medical practice, advances in medical technology, and new disease patterns. Articles by renowned experts cover timely and practical issues as well as academic and philosophical themes. This new volume contains incisive analyses of such topics as the medical and legal considerations in the treatment of AIDS patients, the use of lasers, the Bhopal tragedy, and the use of implantable cardiovascular devices. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Cyril H. WechtPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.553kg ISBN: 9780275925512ISBN 10: 027592551 Pages: 267 Publication Date: 09 December 1986 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews?The volume's 12 chapters deal very comprehensively with some of the most pressing medicolegal and social issues of the day. The chapters are comprehensive, yet presented concisely, simply, and logically. They are highly readable and can be understood by all segments of the book's intended audience--physicians, attorneys, physician/attorneys, other health care and legal professionals, and the public at large . . . comprehensive in scope and coverage. The book and its contents deliver what was intended--a diverse, well-organized, and highly readable collection of essays by noted experts in the legal medicine field spanning the major areas of current emphasis. . . . As the best known and most respected work of its kind, Dr. Wecht's Legal Medicine annual has been the standard-bearer for the increasingly diversified, interdisciplinary literature in law and medicine since the late 1960s.?-Journal of Legal Medicine ""The volume's 12 chapters deal very comprehensively with some of the most pressing medicolegal and social issues of the day. The chapters are comprehensive, yet presented concisely, simply, and logically. They are highly readable and can be understood by all segments of the book's intended audience--physicians, attorneys, physician/attorneys, other health care and legal professionals, and the public at large . . . comprehensive in scope and coverage. The book and its contents deliver what was intended--a diverse, well-organized, and highly readable collection of essays by noted experts in the legal medicine field spanning the major areas of current emphasis. . . . As the best known and most respected work of its kind, Dr. Wecht's Legal Medicine annual has been the standard-bearer for the increasingly diversified, interdisciplinary literature in law and medicine since the late 1960s.""-Journal of Legal Medicine ?The volume's 12 chapters deal very comprehensively with some of the most pressing medicolegal and social issues of the day. The chapters are comprehensive, yet presented concisely, simply, and logically. They are highly readable and can be understood by all segments of the book's intended audience--physicians, attorneys, physician/attorneys, other health care and legal professionals, and the public at large . . . comprehensive in scope and coverage. The book and its contents deliver what was intended--a diverse, well-organized, and highly readable collection of essays by noted experts in the legal medicine field spanning the major areas of current emphasis. . . . As the best known and most respected work of its kind, Dr. Wecht's Legal Medicine annual has been the standard-bearer for the increasingly diversified, interdisciplinary literature in law and medicine since the late 1960s.?-Journal of Legal Medicine Author Informationcht /f Cyril /i H. /s M.D., JD. /r Series Ed Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |