Book Review: Elder Mistreatment: Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation in An Aging America

While congress considers (and passes) legislation to fight elder mistreatment, most legal action occurs at the state level through state Adult Protection Service laws, often imposing criminal liability on elder mistreatment. Mandatory or voluntary reporting laws apply in many states. The National Research Council Report recommends enhanced research on the effectiveness of various interventions, and recommends that researchers be exempt from reporting requirements

Law, Medicine and Forensic Science, Third Edition (By William J. Curran and E. Donald Shapiro)

Mention the term health law to the average person, including most attorneys and health professionals, and one will immediately conjure up visions of medical malpractice litigation. Private lawsuits brought by individual patients seeking monetary damages from their health care providers based on alleged breach of professional duty have been a part of this nation\u27s legal and social landscape for a considerable time. The prosecution and defense of such claims has kept a substantial number of attorneys quite gainfully occupied. Medical malpractice continues today to be an increasingly prolific area of legal activity, owing to factors like the ever-growing organizational and technological complexity and impersonality of health care delivery, the escalating costs of obtaining health care, and generally more demanding public attitudes fostered by the civil rights and consumer movements-and their triumphs--of the past quarter century. New legal theories, unthought of just a few years ago, such as wrongful life and corporate liability, are now routinely argued, and in many cases accepted, bases for imposing financial liability upon individual and institutional health care providers. Malpractice litigation continues to be a major and expanding source of legal employment

The Nursing Home as Part of the POLST Paradigm

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Bioethics and Law: Cases, Materials and Problems (By Michael H. Shapiro and Roy G. Spece Jr.)

Much has been written concerning the desirability of teaching health profession students about bioethics, and several texts have been published to assist in that endeavor. Similarly, the virtues of including courses in medical jurisprudence in the law school curriculum have been widely accepted, and there are at least three fine casebooks in this field to which teachers and students may turn. Additionally, a number of volumes, predominantly of the anthology type, attempt to combine in one work the subjects of bioethics and the law. Some of these books may be found useful for the classroom, where increasingly these two distinct but interrelated disciplines are being coalesced into a unified learning experience. Against this background, Professors Shapiro and Spece have labored mightily and brought forth the first casebook on bioethical issues and principles designed primarily for use in law school courses