Health and the Law: A Primer for Health Professionals

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Simon and Schuster, 1985 - 468 pages
Tom Christoffel pens “an excellent overview of the law for non-lawyers in the health care field” (George Annas, Professor of Law and Medicine at Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health).

Health and the Law provides health professionals and students with a balanced, comprehensive, highly readable survey of the legal concepts and controversies affecting them today.

Avoiding unnecessarily technical language, it lucidly explains basic legal principles and theories, examines current issues and their implications, and probes future legal trends. Each chapter offers a complete, self-contained introduction to a medicolegal topic—including invaluable endnotes that cite references, clarify perspectives, and suggest further readings.

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Contents

TORY PROCESS
32
Public Health and the
47
STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
60
LICENSURE CERTIFICATION
77
HEALTH CARE
160
DEATH AND THE LAW
251
Clinical Practice and the
265
Afterword
430
Bibliography
437
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Tom Christoffel is Associate Professor of the University of Illinois at Chicago. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he has served with the Join Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals and is co-author of Measuring the Quality of Patient Care.

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