Disability

ISBN-13: 9783540134213 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 256 str.

A. Carmi; E. Chigier; S. Schneider

Opis

The Medicolegal Library is the first and only series of its kind. Its importance is self-evident. During the last decade, science, especial ly medical practice, has become an increasingly complex undertak ing. Recent dramatic developments in medicine have given rise to both theoretical controversies and practical dilemmas. Society is struggling with new scientific, economic, cultural, and legal issues. The establishment of a series such as this appears vital for lawyers and physicians, for sociologists and psychologists, and for the pub lic at large. The editorial board of the Medicolegal Library consists of dis tinguished scientists from many different countries and disciplines. Judge Amnon Carmi acts as principal series editor. Judge Carmi is the author of many books and articles on medical law, and is Editor in-Chief of Medicine and Law: An International Journal. The Medicolegal Library will issue two books each year. The first four books, soon to be published, will deal with child abuse, euthanasia, disability, and nursing, laws and ethics."

Spis treści

I. Introduction.- Speech Before the International Convention on the Medicolegal Aspects of Disability.- What Is Medical and what Is Legal About Disability?.- II. Disability and Law.- On the Realization of the Rights of Invalids According to the Israeli National Insurance Law.- Issues of Competence and the Dependent Adults Act.- Employment Opportunities for the Handicapped in the United States.- Implementing Legal Mandates Regarding the Disabled in Educational Institutions in the USA.- Learning Disabilities and the Court.- Judicial Self-awareness and Psychoanalytic Countertransference.- The Disabled Person as a Witness in Court.- Economic Constraints on the Effectiveness of Litigation and Legislation for the Disabled.- Assessment of Disability.- Chronic Pain in the Medicolegal Aspects of Workers’ Compensation Cases.- III. Disability and Medicine.- Psychosocial Aspects of Disability.- Psychosocial Factors in Successful Rehabilitation.- Liability of Medical Malpractice in German Law.- The Family and the Invalid: Who Needs Whom?.- Self-concept of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients.- Definitions of Rehabilitation in Legislation.- Medicolegal Considerations in the Care of Severely Disabled Newborn in Canada.- Rehabilitation of Heroin Addicts with Methadone Maintenance: A Five-Year Clinical Experience.- Rehabilitation of Traumatic Brain-injured Patients.- Prostheses for Disabled Elderly Amputees.- The Effect of Legal Settlement on Work Disability Following Compensable Injury.- IV. Medicolegal Aspects.- Medicolegal Criteria for Post-traumatic Psycho Syndrome.- Informed Consent by Mentally Disabled Persons.- Confidentiality: The Moral/Legal/Treatment Conflict.- Disability, Medical Intervention, and Individual Freedom.- Medicolegal Aspects of Sterilization for Mentally Disabled Persons.- V. Epilogue.- The Eighties: Decade of Handicapped People.