Health Care Law And Ethics In A Nutshell

Download or read book Health Care Law and Ethics in a Nutshell written by MARK A.. ORENTLICHER HALL (DAVID.) and published by West Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public policy responses to escalating medical costs and constrained access pose fundamental challenges to health care law. Profound medical advances also generate many ethical dilemmas. This authoritative discussion considers how law and ethics respond to these driving social, economic, and political forces of innovation, crisis and reform. Topics include health insurance reform, health care finance and delivery structures, treatment relationships, facility and insurance regulation, corporate and tax law, refusal of life support, organ donation, and reproductive technologies.