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Health Care Law and Ethics in a Nutshell
Medical advances have increased treatment options as well as costs, thus generating many new ethical problems. This authoritative discussion focuses on controlling medical costs while ensuring patient access; the legal structure of health care delivery; and the ethical issues in patient care decisions.
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464 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 1990
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October 14, 2021
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.
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.
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