Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Medical Law & Legislation

EU Health Systems and Distributive Justice uses theories of distributive justice to examine tensions created by the application of the Internal Market rules to the provision of health care services within the European Union.

Using the concepts and principles embedded in the theories of egalitarianism and libertarianism, this book analyses the impact of the Internal Market rules on common values and principles shared by European health systems, such as universality, accessibility, equity and solidarity. This analysis is conducted using the specific issue of cross-border health care....

ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization. It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury of diseases. The code set allows more than 14,000 different codes and permits the tracking of many new diagnoses.

The U.S. has used ICD-10-CM (Clinical Modification) since October, 2015. This national variant of ICD-10 was provided by the Centers for...

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 was a major update to the UK s laws on the use and regulation of reproductive technology and assisted reproduction. Since the enactment of the new law, the sector s regulatory body, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), has also consulted on various related topics including barriers to egg and sperm donation in the UK, multiple births/single embryo transfer and using IVF technology to prevent mitochondrial disease.

This book critically considers recent developments in human fertilisation legislation, asking...

Dieses Buch gewahrt einen Uberblick uber den historischen Werdegang, die medizinischen Grundlagen und die Regelungen zur Leihmutterschaft. Es wertet aktuelle entwicklungspsychologische Studien zum Wohlbefinden der auf diese Weise geborenen Kinder aus. Der Gesetzgeber begrundet das strikte Verbot der Leihmutterschaft mit erheblichen Gefahren fur das Kindeswohl und die Menschenwurde. Weil das Verfahren mit der Vorstellung bricht, dass die austragende Frau auch zur sozialen Mutter wird, sieht es sich in Gesellschaft und Politik ungemeinen Kontroversen ausgesetzt. Der Autor untersucht, ob die...

This book gathers international and national reports from across the globe on key questions in the field of antitrust and intellectual property.

The first part discusses the application of competition law in the pharmaceutical sector, which continues to be a focus for anti-trust authorities around the world. A detailed international report explores the extent to which the application of the competition rules in the pharmaceutical sector should be affected by the specific characteristics of those products and markets (including consumer protection rules, the need to promote...