Health Care Law and Ethics in a Nutshell

by Mark A. Hall, David Orentlicher

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.

Genres: Nonfiction

497 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1990

Reviews

[Ari · Rating 4 out of 5]

There's a lot jam packed into this and I was pleasantly surprised about that.

This was a great book specifically addressing the overlap of ethics and law, so I didn't expect a whole lot of variation from the major five topics: Insurance, Organizations, Reproduction, Organs, and Death.

It was also really accessible which is awesome because the language in a lot of these ethicolegal texts are so convoluted that it requires a PhD just to get through the Intro. I love a good vocab, but I feel like these sort of texts benefit the most when more people can understand and engage with the matter.

That being said, there's like no citations (!!!) and the sections are broken up in a strange way (-_-). Maybe it's because I'm not a lawyer and I wasn't the target audience, but again, it goes back to the issue of accessibility. I think maybe they could have slimmed this down and set out the parts into their own individual texts and that would have maybe fleshed out the flow issues, but the whole point of the nutshell series is to be comprehensive so this is just a preferential complaint and not one that marred my experience in digesting the text.