Public health and safety law Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Governing Health
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book could prove useful for those interested in the process and contributing factors of health policy formation such as scholars and professionals in the fields of governance, medicine, and public health.—Communication Booknotes QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Policy Process Chapter 2. CongressChapter 3. The PresidencyChapter 4. Interest GroupsChapter 5. The BureaucracyChapter 6. States and Health Care ReformConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Death by Regulation
Book SynopsisThe story of a small healthcare startup and its fight for survival against the very federal agencies responsible for its launch as part of the ACA. In the contentious run-up to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Congress passed a law to make nonprofit health insurance CO-OPs (formally known as Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans) a viable alternative to the public option. The idea was to create new competition in order to lower health insurance premiums and encourage innovation. Nearly two dozen such low-cost CO-OPs were launched in the wake of the ACA's passage; only four are in operation today. In Death by Regulation, Dr. Peter L. Beilenson tells the story of a group of Maryland-based public health professionals who launched the Evergreen Health Cooperative, only to discover that the ACA law encouraging CO-OPs was a plastic planta piece of legislation created for optics but never intended to be functional. Over most of its four years of existence, Evergreen succeeded againsTable of ContentsPrologue: Sacramento, California, 1970 Part One. A CO-OP Is Launched1. Creating Evergreen: March 2010 to March 2013 2. A Rocky Start: April 2013 to March 2014 3. Gaining Experience: April 2014 to June 2015 4. The Obstacles Pile Up: Summer 2015 5. Improving Fortune: November 2015 to March 2016 Part Two. Fighting the Good Fight6. Evergreen Fights Back: April to June 2016 7. Preparing to Go to Court: June 20168. Evergreen Health Cooperative v. United States of America: July 2016 9. The Pursuit of Investors Begins: July to October 2016 10. Staying Alive: October 2016 00011. Think Globally, Act Locally: October 2016 to January 2017 12. Ten Frenzied Days: January 2017 13. Finale: January to August 2017 Conclusion. A Dozen Lessons Learned Epilogue Acknowledgments Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Health Disparities in the United States
Book SynopsisChallenging students to think critically about the complex web of social forces that leads to health disparities in the United States. The health care system in the United States has been called the best in the world. Yet wide disparities persist between social groups, and many Americans suffer from poorer health than people in other developed countries. In this revised edition of Health Disparities in the United States, Donald A. Barr provides extensive new data about the ways low socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity interact to create and perpetuate these health disparities. Examining the significance of this gulf for the medical community and society at large, Barr offers potential policy- and physician-based solutions for reducing health inequity in the long term. This thoroughly updated edition focuses on a new challenge the United States last experienced more than half a century ago: successive years of declining life expectancy. Barr addresses the causes of this declineTable of ContentsPreface1. Introduction to the Social Roots of Health Disparities2. What Is "Health"? How Should We Define It? How Should We Measure It?3. The Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Health, or, "They Call It 'Poor Health' for a Reason"4. Understanding How Low Social Status Leads to Poor Health 5. Race, Ethnicity, and Health 6. Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Health: Which Is More Important in Affecting Health Status?7. Children's Health Disparities 8. All Things Being Equal, Does Race/Ethnicity Affect How Physicians Treat Patients?9. Why Does Race/Ethnicity Affect the Way Physicians Treat Patients?10. When, if Ever, Is It Appropriate to Use a Patient's Race/Ethnicity to Help Guide Medical Decisions?11. What Should We Do to Reduce Health Disparities?ReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Preventing Child Trafficking
Book SynopsisHow can a public health approach advance efforts to prevent, identify, and respond to child trafficking?Child trafficking is widely recognized as one of the critical issues of our day, prompting calls to action at the global, national, and local levels. Yet it is unclear whether the strategies and tools used to counter this exploitationmost of which involve law enforcement and social serviceshave actually reduced the prevalence of trafficking. In Preventing Child Trafficking, Jonathan Todres and Angela Diaz explore how the public health field can play a comprehensive, integrated role in preventing, identifying, and responding to child trafficking. Describing the depth and breadth of trafficking's impact on children while exploring the limitations in current responses, Todres and Diaz argue that public health frameworks offer important insights into the problem, with detailed chapters on how professionals and organizations can identify and respond effectively to at-risk and trafficked cTrade ReviewA call to action—to provide a public health toolkit for all people who work, or care for children, from policy makers, to educators, health-care and social workers, and community leaders . . . [Preventing Child Trafficking is a] thorough, well researched, evidence-based book, with an impassioned argument for action.—Jules Morgan, The Lancet Child And AdolescentPreventing Child Trafficking by Todres and Diaz examine what human trafficking entails and responses that need to be taken on the issue. The authors address ways that evidence-based research would be beneficial in preventing human trafficking and the methods that should be implemented. Issues raised in this book are intended for the general public, medical professionals, legislatures, and researchers. The information presented is intended to bring awareness to aid combatting human trafficking.—Morgan Fetters, Journal of Youth and AdolescenceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Case Studies and TerminologyIntroduction: Child Trafficking in Our CommunitiesPart I. Child Trafficking and Current Responses1. Understanding Child Trafficking: The Nature and Scope of the Problem2. The Consequences of Child Trafficking3. Current Responses to Child TraffickingPart II: The Public Health Approach4. Public Health Methods and Perspectives5. Understanding Risk Factors6. Improving Identification: A Case Study of Health Care Settings7. Assisting Vulnerable and Exploited Youth: Health Care ResponsesConclusion: Building an Effective Response to Child TraffickingAppendix: ResourcesNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Medicalization of Birth and Death
Book SynopsisImproving how individuals give birth and die in the United States requires reforming the regulatory, reimbursement, and legal structures that centralize care in hospitals and prevent the growth of community-based alternatives. In 1900, most Americans gave birth and died at home, with minimal medical intervention. By contrast, most Americans today begin and end their lives in hospitals. The medicalization we now see is due in large part to federal and state policies that draw patients away from community-based providers, such as birth centers and hospice care, and toward the most intensive and costliest kinds of care. But the evidence suggests that birthing and dying people receive too mucheven harmfulmedical intervention. In The Medicalization of Birth and Death, political scientist Lauren K. Hall describes how and why birth and death became medicalized events. While hospitalization provides certain benefits, she acknowledges, it also creates harms, limiting patient autonomy, driviTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Watershed of Healthcare Decision Making Chapter One. Medicalized Birth and the Current of Centralized Care Chapter Two. Medicalized Death and the Current of Centralized Care Chapter Three. Safe Harbors for Demedicalized Birth and Death Chapter Four. Navigating the Regulation Tributary Chapter Five. Swept Away on the Reimbursement Headwater Chapter Six. Caught in the Riptide of Risk Chapter Seven. Black Birth and Death in the Medicalized Rapids Conclusion. Reshaping the WatershedAppendix. Interview InformationGlossaryNotes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Prevention First
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword, by Senators Tom Daschle and Bill Frist, MDPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The State of Disease PreventionPart 1: Prevention within the Healthcare SettingChapter 1. How Do You Insert Prevention into Healthcare's Value Equation? Chapter 2. Why Is Strengthening Primary Care So Important for Prevention? Chapter 3. Where Should Healthcare Look outside the Walls of the Clinical Setting?Chapter 4. Social Determinants and Healthcare: Is It Time to Go Upstream?Part 2: Prevention outside the Healthcare SettingChapter 5. Personal Responsibility or Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change?Chapter 6. Why Do We Take Public Health for Granted?Chapter 7. Public Health Emergency Preparedness: The Great Uniter?Chapter 8. Is Global Health US Health?Conclusion: Twenty-First-Century Urgent Challenges and Promising OpportunitiesEpilogueNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Achieving Health for All
Book SynopsisHow did seven low- and middle-income countries, inspired by the landmark Alma-Ata Declaration, dramatically improve citizen health by focusing on primary health care?The Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978 marked a potential turning point in global health, signaling a commitment to primary health care that could have improved the safety of air, food, water, roads, homes, and workplaces in all 180 countries that signed it. Unfortunately, progress in many countries stalled in the 1980s. The declaration was, however, embraced by a number of countries, where its implementation led to substantial improvement in citizen health. Achieving Health for All reveals how, inspired by Alma-Ata, the governments of seven countries executed comprehensive primary health care systems, deploying new cadres of community-based health workers to bring relevant services to ordinary households. Drawing on a set of narrative case studies from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Nepal, Ghana, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam,the boTable of ContentsForeword, by Soumya SwaminathanForeword, by Abdul GhaffarIntroduction. Why Does Primary Health Care Matter in the Twenty-First Century?Part I. Primary Health Care FoundationsChapter 1. Primary Health Care: History, Trends, Controversies, and ChallengesChapter 2. Identifying Countries with Exceptionally Rapid Gains in Life Expectancy: A Quantitative ApproachChapter 3. Strategies to Improve Comprehensive Primary Health Care Performance in a DistrictChapter 4. Why Well-Supported Health Systems Are Necessary for Vertical Programs to Succeed: Lessons from Polio EradicationChapter 5. Continuity between Comprehensive Primary Health Care and Sustainable Development GoalsChapter 6. Four Principles of Community-Based Primary Health Care: Support, Appreciate, Learn/Listen, Transfer (SALT)Part II. Country Case Studies of Primary Health Care at Scale and the Way ForwardChapter 7. Bangladesh's Health Improvement Strategy as an Example of the Alma-Ata Declaration in ActionChapter 8. Ethiopia: Expansion of Primary Health Care through the Health Extension ProgramChapter 9. Health Improvement through the Primary Health Care Approach: Case of NepalChapter 10. Four Decades of Community-Based Primary Health Care Development in GhanaChapter 11. Sri Lanka's Health Improvements as an Example of the Implementation of the Alma-Ata DeclarationChapter 12. How Vietnam's Doi Moi Reforms Achieved Rapid Gains in Health with Comprehensive Primary Health CareChapter 13. Cuba's Progress on Primary Health Care since the Alma-Ata ConferenceChapter 14. Health for All in the Twenty-First Century: Lessons for the Next Forty Years of Implementing Primary Health CareList of ContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press My Quest for Health Equity
Book SynopsisReading this book is like sitting down with Dr. David Satcher to hear stories of leadership and lessons learned from his lifetime commitment to health equity. Dr. David Satcher is one of the most widely known and well-regarded physicians of our time. A former four-star admiral in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, he served as the assistant secretary for health, the surgeon general of the United States, and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before founding the eponymous Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine. At the core of his impact on public health, he is also a lifelong leader for civil rights and health equity. Born black and poor in the deep South, Dr. Satcher was a victim of an unjust health care system: he almost died of whooping cough at the age of two because Jim Crow laws meant that his black doctor could not admit him to a hospital. That experience was the first of many that shaped him as a leader andTable of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1. Lessons Learned from Fifty Years of Leadership Chapter 2. From Health Disparities to Global Health Equity Chapter 3. When Leadership Confronts FailureChapter 4. The Need for Clear CommunicationChapter 5. The Need for Continual Learning Chapter 6. A Three-Dimensional Perspective on Leadership Chapter 7. Discipline in the Quest for Health Equity Chapter 8. Leading from Science to Policy to PracticeChapter 9. Confronting the Epidemic of Overweight and ObesityChapter 10. The Advancement of Reproductive HealthChapter 11. Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Health ProblemsChapter 12. Leadership beyond ExpertiseChapter 13. The Team Approach to LeadershipChapter 14. Leading for Institutional Sustainability Frequently Used AcronymsReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press An Introduction to the US Health Care Industry
Book SynopsisWhy does US health care have such high costs and poor outcomes? Dr. David S. Guzick offers this critique of the American health care industry and argues that it could work more effectively by rebalancing care, cost, and access. For decades, the United States has been faced with a puzzling problem: Despite spending much more money per capita on health care than any other developed nation, its population suffers from notoriously poorer health. In comparison with 10 other high-income nations, in fact, the US has the lowest life expectancy at birth, the highest rates of infant and neonatal mortality, and the most inequitable access to physicians when adjusted for need. In An Introduction to the US Health Care Industry, Dr. David S. Guzick takes an in-depth look at this troubling issue. Bringing to bear his unique background as a physician, economist, former University of Rochester medical school dean, and former president of the University of Florida Health System, Dr. Guzick shows that Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Setting the Stage: Health and Health Care over the Past CenturyPart I. Economic UnderpinningsChapter 2. Perfect Competition and Its Applicability to Health Care Services Chapter 3. Imperfections in the Market for Health Care Services Chapter 4. Implications of an Imperfect Market I: Greater Utilization Due to Price Subsidies Chapter 5. Implications of an Imperfect Market II: The Role of Induced Demand Chapter 6. The Role of Price in Health Care Spending Growth Chapter 7. Inequality of Wealth, Health, and Access to Care Part II. Historical EvolutionChapter 8. Origins and Structural Underpinnings of the US Health Care Industry Chapter 9. The US Health Care Industry Takes Shape: The 1940s through 1965 Chapter 10. Medicare Chapter 11. Medicaid Chapter 12. The Affordable Care Act Part III. Contemporary EnvironmentChapter 13. Evidence-Based Practice Chapter 14. Cost-Benefit, Cost-Effectiveness, and Cost-Utility Analysis Chapter 15. Health Care Law Chapter 16. The Safety and Quality of Patient Care Chapter 17. The Cost Conundrum I: Utilization Chapter 18. The Cost Conundrum II: Price: Administration, Insurers, Physicians, and Hospitals Chapter 19. The Cost Conundrum III: Price: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Chapter 20. Inequality of Access Part IV. Improving the Balance of Care, Cost, and AccessChapter 21. Improving the Balance I: Macro Considerations Chapter 22. Improving the Balance II: Enhancing Care, Reducing Cost, and Improving Access References Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Digital Contact Tracing for Pandemic Response
Book SynopsisAs nations race to hone contact-tracing efforts, the world's experts consider strategies for maximum transparency and impact. As public health professionals around the world work tirelessly to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear that traditional methods of contact tracing need to be augmented in order to help address a public health crisis of unprecedented scope. Innovators worldwide are racing to develop and implement novel public-facing technology solutions, including digital contact tracing technology. These technological products may aid public health surveillance and containment strategies for this pandemic and become part of the larger toolbox for future infectious outbreak prevention and control. As technology evolves in an effort to meet our current moment, Johns Hopkins Project on Ethics and Governance of Digital Contact Tracing Technologiesa rapid research and expert consensus group effort led by Dr. Jeffrey P. Kahn of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of BioethiTable of ContentsLead Authors and ContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAcronyms and AbbreviationsSummaryIntroductionChapter 1. Public Health PerspectiveChapter 2. Digital Technology and Contact TracingChapter 3. Ethics of Designing and Using DCTTChapter 4. Legal ConsiderationsChapter 5. RecommendationsResourcesWorks Cited
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Johns Hopkins University Press Why Are Health Disparities Everyones Problem
Book SynopsisHow can we all work together to eliminate the avoidable injustices that plague our health care system and society?Health is determined by far more than a person's choices and behaviors. Social and political conditions, economic forces, physical environments, institutional policies, health care system features, social relationships, risk behaviors, and genetic predispositions all contribute to physical and mental well-being. In America and around the world, many of these factors are derived from a lingering history of unequal opportunities and unjust treatment for people of color and other vulnerable communities. But they aren't the only ones who suffer because of these disparitieseveryone is impacted by the factors that degrade health for the least advantaged among us. In Why Are Health Disparities Everyone's Problem? Dr. Lisa Cooper shows how we can work together to eliminate the injustices that plague our health care system and society. The book follows Cooper's journey from her ch
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Johns Hopkins University Press Crossing the American Health Care Chasm
Book SynopsisWhy is there such a deep partisan division within the United States regarding how health care should be organized and financedand how can we encourage politicians to band together again for the good of everyone?For decades, Democratic and Republican political leaders have disagreed about the fundamental goals of American health policy. The modern-day consequences of this disagreementparticularly in the Republicans' campaign to erode the coverage and equity gains of the Affordable Care Actcan be seen in the tragic and disparate impact of COVID-19 on the country. In Crossing the American Health Care Chasm, Donald A. Barr, MD, PhD, details the breakdown in political relations in the United States. Why, he asks, has health policywhich used to be a place where the two sides could find common groundbecome the nexus of fiery political conflict?From Harry S. Truman's failed attempt to enact a plan for national health insurance to the recent efforts of President Donald J. Trump, Barr's historicTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. Bipartisanship in Health Care during the Late Twentieth CenturyChapter 2. Building on the Bipartisanship That Gained Passage of Medicare and MedicaidChapter 3. Health Care Reform under the Obama AdministrationChapter 4. Growing Congressional Opposition to the Affordable Care ActChapter 5. Efforts to Repeal the Affordable Care Act following the Elections of 2016Chapter 6. Attempts by Congress and the Trump Administration to Disrupt ACA FinancingChapter 7. Continuing Efforts to Weaken the Affordable Care ActChapter 8. Two More Attempts to Defeat Key Elements of the Affordable Care Act Chapter 9. Bridging the Health Care ChasmSummary and Conclusions: Finding the Path to BipartisanshipAcknowledgmentsReferencesIndex
£23.85
Johns Hopkins University Press Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People
Book SynopsisFor caregivers of deeply forgetful people: a book that combines new ethics guidelines with an innovative program on how to communicate and connect with people with Alzheimer's. How do we approach a deeply forgetful loved one so as to notice and affirm their continuing self-identity? For three decades, Stephen G. Post has worked around the world encouraging caregivers to become more aware ofand find renewed hope insurprising expressions of selfhood despite the challenges of cognitive decline. In this book, Post offers new perspectives on the worth and dignity of people with Alzheimer's and related disorders despite the negative influence of hypercognitive values that place an ethically unacceptable emphasis on human dignity as based on linear rationality and strength of memory. This bias, Post argues, is responsible for the abusive exclusion of this population from our shared humanity. With vignettes and narratives, he argues for a deeper dignity grounded in consciousness, emotional pTrade ReviewEssential reading for all caregivers, family, and healthcare providers for deeply forgetful people.—Library JournalTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter One. In Praise of Caregivers and DignityChapter Two. Hope in Caring for Deeply Forgetful People: Why It Matters and Where to Find ItChapter Three. Answers to Sixteen Questions Caregivers Ask from Diagnosis to DyingChapter Four. The Seventeenth Question: Preemptive Physician-Assisted Suicide (PPAS) for Alzheimer's Disease: A CautionChapter Five. A Caregiver's Ethical Purpose: Preserving Dignity, Ten Manifestations of Care, and Respect for the Whole Story of a Life Chapter Six. Respecting the Preferences of Deeply Forgetful People in Health Care and ResearchChapter Seven. "Is Grandma Still There?" The Mystery of Continuing Self-IdentityAn Epilogue. North WindA Caregiver Resilience Program: Meeting Alzheimer's: Learning to Communicate and Connectby Rev. Dr. Jade C. AngelicaReferencesAcknowledgmentsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People
Book SynopsisFor caregivers of deeply forgetful people: a book that combines new ethics guidelines with an innovative program on how to communicate and connect with people with Alzheimer's. How do we approach a deeply forgetful loved one so as to notice and affirm their continuing self-identity? For three decades, Stephen G. Post has worked around the world encouraging caregivers to become more aware ofand find renewed hope insurprising expressions of selfhood despite the challenges of cognitive decline. In this book, Post offers new perspectives on the worth and dignity of people with Alzheimer's and related disorders despite the negative influence of hypercognitive values that place an ethically unacceptable emphasis on human dignity as based on linear rationality and strength of memory. This bias, Post argues, is responsible for the abusive exclusion of this population from our shared humanity. With vignettes and narratives, he argues for a deeper dignity grounded in consciousness, emotional pTrade ReviewEssential reading for all caregivers, family, and healthcare providers for deeply forgetful people.—Library JournalTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter One. In Praise of Caregivers and DignityChapter Two. Hope in Caring for Deeply Forgetful People: Why It Matters and Where to Find ItChapter Three. Answers to Sixteen Questions Caregivers Ask from Diagnosis to DyingChapter Four. The Seventeenth Question: Preemptive Physician-Assisted Suicide (PPAS) for Alzheimer's Disease: A CautionChapter Five. A Caregiver's Ethical Purpose: Preserving Dignity, Ten Manifestations of Care, and Respect for the Whole Story of a Life Chapter Six. Respecting the Preferences of Deeply Forgetful People in Health Care and ResearchChapter Seven. "Is Grandma Still There?" The Mystery of Continuing Self-IdentityAn Epilogue. North WindA Caregiver Resilience Program: Meeting Alzheimer's: Learning to Communicate and Connectby Rev. Dr. Jade C. AngelicaReferencesAcknowledgmentsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Searching for the Family Doctor
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn 'Searching for the Family Doctor: Primary Care on the Brink,' management Professor Timothy J. Hoff depicts a field in crisis amid a system trending toward 'transactional,' volume-driven, ever more 'balkanized' care. The practitioner perspective illuminates a system antithetical to the preventive care that is family medicine's stock-in-trade, and Hoff's observations about the missteps behind the field's malaise are incisive. This emphasis will also serve to impart a sense of agency to the book's professional readers — that redemption lies in setting their house in order.—San Francisco ChronicleHoff, professor of management, health care systems, and health policy at Northeastern University, investigates the specialty of family medicine through archival research and interviews conducted with practicing family physicians....An excellent book.—Choice (American Library Association)[Hoff] piec[es] out the cognitive dissonance of practicing family medicine in a broken health care system.—Lalita Abhyankar, Health AffairsTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Searching for the Family DoctorChapter 2. Poor Soil for Growing Generalists: Family Doctors versus the Health SystemChapter 3. Altruists and Accidental Doctors: Why They Become (Family) DoctorsChapter 4. Saying Goodbye to the General DoctorChapter 5. Saying Hello to the New and Improved Family DoctorChapter 6. The Struggle to Be a True Believer as a Family DoctorChapter 7. The Realists: Family Doctors Charting Their Own CourseChapter 8. The Bill Comes Due: Family Doctors' Struggle for RelevancyChapter 9. A Top-Ten List for Saving Family DoctorsAppendix. A Note on the ResearchReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Present Illness
Book SynopsisBeyond political posturing and industry quick-fixes, why is the American health care system so difficult to reform?Health care reform efforts are difficult to achieve and have been historically undermined by their narrow scope. In The Present Illness, Martin F. Shapiro, MD, PhD, MPH, weaves together history, sociology, extensive research, and his own experiences as a physician to explore the broad range of afflictions impairing US health care and explains why we won''t be able to fix the system without making significant changes across society. With a sharp eye and ready humor, Shapiro dissects the ways all groups participatingclinicians and their organizations, medical schools and their faculty, hospitals and clinical corporations, scientists and the National Institutes of Health, insurers and manufacturers, governments and their policies, and also patients and the publicshape and reinforce a dysfunctional system. Shapiro identifies three major pr
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Johns Hopkins University Press Disparities in Urban Health
Book SynopsisA firsthand look at how policies and legal doctrines affect families living in low-income urban neighborhoods. Winner of the Anna Julia Cooper & CLR James Award by the National Council for Black StudiesIn Disparities in Urban Health, Edward V. Wallace examines the impacts of political and structural determinants of health on people living in urban settings. This timely book intertwines the personal stories of real families with a comprehensive analysis of the policies and legal doctrines that shape their lives. Through interviews and an investigation of various policies, Wallace provides a firsthand look at the challenges faced by these families and their experiences with health disparities. Their voices bridge the gap between theory and reality while offering compelling and vital perspectives on the complex issues that affect their health. Wallace highlights key policies that impact low-income communities, including the no duty to treat policy, the Equal Protection Clause of the F
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Johns Hopkins University Press Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak
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Johns Hopkins University Press Building a Unified American Health Care System
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Johns Hopkins University Press Global Human Smuggling
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface, by Morgane NicotIntroduction: Control, Complexity, and Creativity, by David Kyle and Luigi Achilli1. Smuggling the State Back In: Agents of Human Smuggling Reconsidered, by David Kyle and John Dale2. How the State Made Smuggling and Smuggling Made the State: Immigration Control and Evasion on the U.S.-Mexican Line, by Peter Andreas3. Multinational Initiatives Against Global Trafficking in Persons for Sexual Exploitation, 1899-1999, by Eileen P. Scully4. Multilateral Protocols on Trafficking and Smuggling: Divergent Paths of Cooperation and Disintegration Since 2000, by Sarah P. Lockhart5. Human Smuggling and Terrorism: Complex Adaptive Systems and Special Operations, by David C. Ellis6. The Unfolding of Migrant Smuggling Across the EU-Turkey Border: Structural, Institutional, and Agency-based Factors, by Ahmet Içduygu7. The Double Duality of Migrant Smugglers: An Analytical Framework, by Jørgen Carling8. Financial Elements of Clandestine Journeys: How You Pay Your Smuggler Matters, by Kim Wilson9. The Burners: Smuggling Networks and Maghrebi Migrants, by Matt Herbert10. Smuggling Migrants from Africa To Europe: Threat, Resource, or Bargaining Chip?, by Luca Raineri11. Irregular Migration and Human Smuggling Networks: The Case of North Korea, by Kyunghee Kook12. People Smuggling in Southeast Asia: Rohingya and Chin Stories of Agency, Freedom and Power in Cross Border Movement, by Gerhard Hoffstaedter13. The Experiences of Women as Facilitators of Irregular Migration – And What They Say About the Way We Think About Migrant Smuggling, by Gabriella Sanchez14. Enter the Boogeyman: Representations of Human Smuggling in Mainstream Narratives of Migration, by Luigi Achilli and Alice Massari15. Ecuadorean Migrant Smuggling: A Diversity of Contemporary Patterns and Dynamics, by Soledad Álvarez Velasco16. Combatting People Smuggling with the Same Crime? Australia's "Creative" Anti-smuggling Efforts in Indonesia, by Antje Missbach and Wayne Palmer17. The Rise of "Border Security": Chaos, Clutter, and Complexity in a Technological Arms Race, by Victor Manjarrez18. Transnational Struggles and the 'State': Biopower and Biopolitics in the Case of a Nigerian Human Trafficking Ring, by Gregory Feldman19. The Transformation of Mexican Migrant Smuggling Networks during the 21st Century, by Simón Pedro Izcara Palacios20. In Search of Protection: Irregular Mobility Among Palestinian Youth in Gaza, by Caitlin ProcterIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Equal Care
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Transformation of American Health Insurance
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New York University Press To Fix or To Heal
Book SynopsisDo doctors fix patients? Or do they heal them? For all of modern medicine's many successes, discontent with the quality of patient care has combined with a host of new developments, from aging populations to the resurgence of infectious diseases, which challenge medicine's overreliance on narrowly mechanistic and technical methods of explanation and intervention, or fixing' patients. The need for a better balance, for more humane healing rationales and practices that attend to the social and environmental aspects of health and illness and the experiencing person, is more urgent than ever. Yet, in public health and bioethics, the fields best positioned to offer countervailing values and orientations, the dominant approaches largely extend and reinforce the reductionism and individualism of biomedicine.The collected essays in To Fix or To Heal do more than document the persistence of reductionist approaches and the attendant extension of medicalization to more and more aspects oTrade ReviewAn important and provocative contribution to a growing debate over the nature and social impact of what the authors describe as a dysfunctionally reductionist medical enterprise. This book questions the boundaries and moral implications of what many of us have come to accept as a necessarily medicalized world, a world of fixable individual bodies. It deserves a broad readership. -- Charles Rosenberg, author of Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and NowJust when you thought nothing new could be said about reductionism and holism in biomedicine, To Fix or To Heal appears and proves otherwise. Balanced and non-polemical, this collection shows how many recent biomedical developments, however much they seem to marginalize questions of value, morality, and social responsibility, often end up evoking them and making their consideration more urgent than ever. -- Robert Aronowitz, author of Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American SocietyI thoroughly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in competing models in contemporary medicine. * Sociology of Health & Illness *[To Fix or To Heal] may help to enlighten those interested in policy to appreciate the historical dimensions of contemporary debates. Conversely, it could be useful reading for historians who want to think about how their research could play a role in ongoing discussions about tensions between reductionism and holism for health and health care. * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *To Fix or to Heal is an exciting and interestingly eclectic volume and a valuable contribution to the scholarship on ethics, public health, and justice. * New Genetics and Society *
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New York University Press Menstruation Matters
Book SynopsisExplores the burgeoning menstrual advocacy movement and analyzes how law should evolve to take menstruation into account. Approximately half the population menstruates for a large portion of their lives, but the law is mostly silent about the topic. Until recently, most people would have said that periods are private matters not to be discussed in public. But the last few years have seen a new willingness among advocates and allies of all ages to speak openly about periods. Slowly around the globe, people are recognizing the basic fundamental human right to address menstruation in a safe and affordable way, free of stigma, shame, or barriers to access. Menstruation Matters explores the role of law in this movement. It asks what the law currently says about menstruation (spoiler alert: not much) and provides a roadmap for legal reform that can move society closer to a world where no one is held back or disadvantaged by menstruation. Bridget J. Crawford and Emily Gold Waldman examineTrade Review"If the question is, ‘Are You There, Law? It's Me, Menstruation,’ this book provides much needed answers." * Judy Blume, author of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret *"An accessible introduction to contemporary legal efforts to challenge the 'culture of silence, stigma, and shame associated with menstruation.' Documenting campaigns to repeal sales taxes on tampons and pads, the authors argue that taxing menstrual products while exempting Band-Aids, adult diapers, and other hygiene supplies is a form of sex discrimination prohibited by the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. Crawford and Waldman also examine how Title IX lawsuits might be used to press school districts into removing 'restrictive bathroom-break and problematic dress-code policies,' among other accommodations, and document attempts to use the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act and Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to address workplace menstruation concerns ... This wide-ranging and well-argued study brings an important yet overlooked aspect of the fight against sex and gender discrimination into the light." * Publishers Weekly *"Crawford and Waldman present an insightful analysis of policies regarding menstruation in this groundbreaking work. An eye-opening look at how law could be used to better protect those who menstruate by providing a framework for how period products ought to be studied for health and environmental safety, how sensitive health information being sold by menstruation apps is being turned into a big business, and how incarcerated individuals face financial barriers to accessing menstrual products." * Library Journal *"I'm immensely proud of the world-leading work in Scotland to make free period products available for women. I believe that being able to access period products is fundamental to equality and dignity and I hope our historic Period Products Act, along with other action highlighted in this book, will inspire legislators everywhere to ensure period dignity within their societies. " * Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister for Scotland, MSP *"Menstrual equity is one of the most important issues of our time and one I’ve long been passionate about. I’m thrilled Menstruation Matters takes a serious look at the gender discrimination that the ‘tampon tax”’ has on women and sheds light on how we can make the lives of menstruating people better through public policy." * Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney *"Menstruation Matters is a must-read for anyone who wants to live in a world where everyone can manage their period with dignity. We still have a long way to go to eradicate stigma and menstrual inequality, however, as the Member of the Scottish Parliament who introduced the bill to make menstrual products available to all who need them in Scotland, I know that progress is possible. Momentum is with the changemakers within the menstrual equality movement. Menstruation Matters contains thoughtful suggestions for lawmakers and advocates worldwide to consider. It’s a welcome addition to the literature for those who don’t want to find themselves on the wrong side of history." * Monica Lennon, Member of the Scottish Parliament and Sponsor of the Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act *"We talk and think so much about gender and inequality as it applies to work, education, healthcare, and social justice. But a throughline that is consistently ignored or dismissed across each of these areas of the law is menstruation. With Menstruation Matters, Bridget Crawford and Emily Waldman trace the legal and policy implications of an issue that you may not register as a marker of inequality, yet impacts every single aspect of a woman, girl, and transgender American's life. This is a long overdue assessment of the ways in which matters lawyers often choose to avoid, elide, and whisper about, can actually matter in profound ways." * Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Legal Correspondent, Slate *"This book is a brilliant exploration of what can happen when the realities of the body are placed at the center of legal reasoning. In Menstruation Matters, Bridget Crawford and Emily Waldman show how the law can be used to reconceptualize the state’s responsibility to ensure that all people have the resources they need to address the involuntary process of menstruation and our shared humanity." * Martha Alberton Fineman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor, Emory University School of Law *"Access to period products is not a privilege, it is a right. It means women, girls and people who menstruate having access to basic activities, capacity to take part in work and in community. Menstruation Matters is a brilliant resource and addition to a conversation we need to have - because ultimately all women and girls, and people who menstruate are entitled to respect, dignity and bodily autonomy, and a belief in the integrity of their bodies. It’s why, at the City of Melbourne local government, I put forward an Australian first motion to make menstrual products available for free in select council facilities. It’s time to end the shame - because menstruation matters." * Jamal Hakim, Councillor at the City of Melbourne *"Menstruation is an issue of basic human rights and equality. Menstruation is not a reason to deny anyone the right to participate in education, religious worship, politics, or family life. This book brings new insight to a discussion of a topic that has too long been treated as the source of stigma and shame, when menstruation is a reality for half the world’s population. " * Indira Jaisring, former Additional Solicitor General of India and attorney for the plaintiffs in Indian Young Lawyers Association v. Kerala *"Periods have become a vital matter of law and policy, in the U.S. and around the globe. Menstruation Matters deftly melds scholarship and jurisprudence with on-the-ground advocacy – providing a vital resource for the next generation of feminist legal leaders. " * Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, author of Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equity *"Menstruation Matters is insightful and thought provoking. It addresses period poverty and menstrual equity from a legal standpoint tampered with policy, practice and lived experiences, making it refreshing. Menstruation is having its moment and Menstruation Matters is part of that moment. The addition it makes to the body of knowledge is immense. I highly recommend it to everyone." * Neville Okwaro, The National WASH Hub, Ministry of Health, Kenya *"This comprehensive discussion unearths new territory for menstrual activism and makes clear the material effect that law and public policy can have on these issues. Above all, the authors show menstruation not as a women's issue to hide but as a human issue that needs worldwide attention. " * Choice *"Responding to the notion that menstruation is a private matter, Crawford and Waldman explore the burgeoning menstrual advocacy movement and consider how law should evolve to take menstruation into account in a wide range of contexts from schools, to workplaces, to prisons, to tax policies." * Law & Social Inquiry *
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New York University Press The Business of Birth
Book SynopsisHow the fear of malpractice affects mothers and reproductive choicesGiving birth is a monumental event, not only in the personal life of the woman giving birth, but as a medical process and procedure. In The Business of Birth, Louise Marie Roth explores the process of giving birth, and the ways in which medicine and law interact to shape maternity care. Focusing on the United States, Roth explores how the law creates an environment where medical providers, malpractice attorneys, and others limit women's rights and choices during birth. She shows how a fear of liability risk often drives the decision-making process of medical providers, who prioritize hospital efficiency over patient safety, to the detriment of mothers themselves. Ultimately, Roth advocates for an approach that protects the reproductive rights of mothers. A comprehensive overview, The Business of Birth provides valuable insight into the impact of the law on mothers, medical providers, maternity care practices, and oTrade ReviewIf you want to understand the seemingly incomprehensible mess that is American maternity care –among the most expensive and least safe in the world – read this book. Louise Roth unpacks the legal, medical, technological and social forces that bring us to this intolerable situation. And she helps us, all those who care about birth and life, to understand how we can fix it. -- Barbara Katz Rothman, author of Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist IndustrializationWith multiple kinds of data, detailed analysis, and empathy for patients and providers alike, Louise Roth reveals how birth experiences are powerfully and invisibly structured by legal and institutional forces, rather than by individual choice. By situating pregnancy and birth management within broader legal, medical, and cultural systems, The Business of Birth offers concrete solutions that hold the promise of making reproductive justice a reality for everyone. -- Jennifer Reich, author of Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject VaccinesIn The Business of Birth, Louise Marie Roth confirms the unpleasant truth that a pregnant woman’s race, class, and education affect the quality of maternity care she receives, contributing to the appalling racial and class disparities in infant and maternal mortality in the United States today. This is a book that everyone concerned with women’s health will want to read. -- Linda C. Fentiman, author of Blaming Mothers: American Law and the Risks to Children’s HealthThe Business of Birth is itself an immense contribution to our knowledge about childbirth, tort liability, and reproductive justice in the United States—and it’s eminently readable as well. * American Journal of Sociology *
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New York University Press Vaccine Court
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book is a case study of one of many complex and obscure tasks that government performs." * Choice *"Highly recommend this book to anyone interested in contemporary vaccine hesitancy and refusal, and, more broadly, in questions about the intersection of science, law, and public policy in democratic societies." * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *"Vaccine Court provides historical, political, and social context to our countrys unprecedented attempt to resolve the conflict between those certain of vaccine harms and the science that may or may not support their claims. In a compelling and sympathetic manner, Kirkland explores the murky netherworld between science, where truths are often determined by decades of study, and court, where truths are determined after a few weeks of testimony." -- Paul A. Offit, MD,author of Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All"In her highly original and meticulously researched book, Anna Kirkland takes us into the little-known but highly contested federal court system responsible for not just compensating individuals and families injured by vaccines, but also adjudicating competing claims of risk, science, and expertise. Vaccine Court exposes the myriad ways law must simultaneously build consensus and create dissent. Skillfully presented with detailed analysis and compelling examples, this book is a powerful vindication of the state as imperfect, indispensable to efforts to ensure public health, and in dire need of new ways to create greater access and equity for all." -- Jennifer Reich,University of Denver"Drawing on rich original data, Kirkland examines how the specialized vaccine court addresses enduring tensions between science and law, popular beliefs and expertise, and fair process and desired outcomes, and how the right to sue is both an inspiration and a constraint on social movements. Vaccine Court is timely, fascinating, and important." -- Charles Epp,The University of Kansas
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New York University Press The Business of Birth
Book SynopsisHow the fear of malpractice affects mothers and reproductive choicesGiving birth is a monumental event, not only in the personal life of the woman giving birth, but as a medical process and procedure. In The Business of Birth, Louise Marie Roth explores the process of giving birth, and the ways in which medicine and law interact to shape maternity care. Focusing on the United States, Roth explores how the law creates an environment where medical providers, malpractice attorneys, and others limit women's rights and choices during birth. She shows how a fear of liability risk often drives the decision-making process of medical providers, who prioritize hospital efficiency over patient safety, to the detriment of mothers themselves. Ultimately, Roth advocates for an approach that protects the reproductive rights of mothers. A comprehensive overview, The Business of Birth provides valuable insight into the impact of the law on mothers, medical providers, maternity care practices, and oTrade Review"If you want to understand the seemingly incomprehensible mess that is American maternity care –among the most expensive and least safe in the world – read this book. Louise Roth unpacks the legal, medical, technological and social forces that bring us to this intolerable situation. And she helps us, all those who care about birth and life, to understand how we can fix it." -- Barbara Katz Rothman, author of Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization"With multiple kinds of data, detailed analysis, and empathy for patients and providers alike, Louise Roth reveals how birth experiences are powerfully and invisibly structured by legal and institutional forces, rather than by individual choice. By situating pregnancy and birth management within broader legal, medical, and cultural systems, The Business of Birth offers concrete solutions that hold the promise of making reproductive justice a reality for everyone." -- Jennifer Reich, author of Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines"In The Business of Birth, Louise Marie Roth confirms the unpleasant truth that a pregnant woman’s race, class, and education affect the quality of maternity care she receives, contributing to the appalling racial and class disparities in infant and maternal mortality in the United States today. This is a book that everyone concerned with women’s health will want to read." -- Linda C. Fentiman, author of Blaming Mothers: American Law and the Risks to Children’s Health"The Business of Birth is itself an immense contribution to our knowledge about childbirth, tort liability, and reproductive justice in the United States—and it’s eminently readable as well." * American Journal of Sociology *
£26.59
New York University Press To Fix or To Heal
Book SynopsisDo doctors fix patients? Or do they heal them? For all of modern medicine's many successes, discontent with the quality of patient care has combined with a host of new developments, from aging populations to the resurgence of infectious diseases, which challenge medicine's overreliance on narrowly mechanistic and technical methods of explanation and intervention, or fixing' patients. The need for a better balance, for more humane healing rationales and practices that attend to the social and environmental aspects of health and illness and the experiencing person, is more urgent than ever. Yet, in public health and bioethics, the fields best positioned to offer countervailing values and orientations, the dominant approaches largely extend and reinforce the reductionism and individualism of biomedicine.The collected essays in To Fix or To Heal do more than document the persistence of reductionist approaches and the attendant extension of medicalization to more and more aspects oTrade ReviewAn important and provocative contribution to a growing debate over the nature and social impact of what the authors describe as a dysfunctionally reductionist medical enterprise. This book questions the boundaries and moral implications of what many of us have come to accept as a necessarily medicalized world, a world of fixable individual bodies. It deserves a broad readership. -- Charles Rosenberg, author of Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and NowJust when you thought nothing new could be said about reductionism and holism in biomedicine, To Fix or To Heal appears and proves otherwise. Balanced and non-polemical, this collection shows how many recent biomedical developments, however much they seem to marginalize questions of value, morality, and social responsibility, often end up evoking them and making their consideration more urgent than ever. -- Robert Aronowitz, author of Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American SocietyI thoroughly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in competing models in contemporary medicine. * Sociology of Health & Illness *[To Fix or To Heal] may help to enlighten those interested in policy to appreciate the historical dimensions of contemporary debates. Conversely, it could be useful reading for historians who want to think about how their research could play a role in ongoing discussions about tensions between reductionism and holism for health and health care. * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *To Fix or to Heal is an exciting and interestingly eclectic volume and a valuable contribution to the scholarship on ethics, public health, and justice. * New Genetics and Society *
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Stanford University Press Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice
Book SynopsisBorn into a tenant farming family in North Carolina in 1946, Mary Louise, Mary Ann, Mary Alice, and Mary Catherine were medical miracles. Annie Mae Fultz, a Black-Cherokee woman who lost her ability to hear and speak in childhood, became the mother of America's first surviving set of identical quadruplets. They were instant celebrities. Their White doctor named them after his own family members. He sold the rights to use the sisters for marketing purposes to the highest-bidding formula company. The girls lived in poverty, while Pet Milk's profits from a previously untapped market of Black families skyrocketed. Over half a century later, baby formula is a seventy-billion-dollar industry and Black mothers have the lowest breastfeeding rates in the country. Since slavery, legal, political, and societal factors have routinely denied Black women the ability to choose how to feed their babies. In Skimmed, Andrea Freeman tells the riveting story of the Fultz quadruplets while uncovering how feeding America's youngest citizens is awash in social, legal, and cultural inequalities. This book highlights the making of a modern public health crisis, the four extraordinary girls whose stories encapsulate a nationwide injustice, and how we can fight for a healthier future.Trade Review"Skimmed provides a powerful portrait of how racism fuels the disparity between who breastfeeds in the U.S. Freeman shows that race continues to matter, even when it comes down to our children's first food, despite many Americans' belief that we are beyond race."—Khiara M. Bridges, University of California, Berkeley"Recovering the remarkable story of the Fultz quadruplets, Andrea Freeman brilliantly reveals how racism, economic inequality, and an unholy alliance between corporations and federal programs create the racial disparity in breastfeeding. Skimmed connects longstanding stereotypes to structural impediments that deny Black mothers the ability to decide for themselves how to feed their babies. This urgent book reveals the deadly consequences of a health crisis that implicates race, gender, economic, food, and reproductive justice."—Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty"This book blew me away. In prose that is equally rigorous and lush, Andrea Freeman walks us into the making of an engineered health crisis through the lives of four Black girls. Skimmed patiently explores the nexus between Blackness and Indigeneity, engineered terror and liberatory possibilities. It is the rare book that my heart will never forget, and my head will always wonder how on earth Freeman pulled this off."—Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir"Skimmed weaves together the story of the Fultz family with history and legal scholarship to explain how medical coercion and white supremacy have shaped Black communities' access to first food. Offering solutions from food justice organizers, Andrea Freeman shows us a path to supporting families who want to breastfeed."—Dani McClain, author of We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood"'Wow!' is my understated expression while reading, pausing and writing notes [on Skimmed]. It is a defining read alongside Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy....Anyone who will listen to me, I am telling about Skimmed."—Wenonah Valentine, MBA, Founder in Residence and Executive Director, iDREAM for Racial Health Equity, a project of Community PartnersTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Formula for Discrimination 1. The Famous Fultz Quads 2. Black Breastfeeding in America 4. The Bad Black Mother 5. When Formula Rules 6. Legalizing Breast Milk 7. The Fultz Quads after Pet Milk Conclusion: "First Food" Freedom
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Stanford University Press When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: Evolving Human
Book SynopsisWhen Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades. Alicia Ely Yamin weaves together theory and firsthand experience in a compelling narrative of how evolving legal norms, empirical knowledge, and development paradigms have interacted in the realization of health rights, and challenges us to consider why these advances have failed to produce greater equality within and between nations. In this revised and expanded second edition, Yamin incorporates crucial lessons learned about the state of global health equity and public health systems during the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrating just how incompatible the current institutionalized world order—based on neoliberal, financialized capitalism—is with one in which the rights of diverse people around the globe can be realized. COVID-19 struck a world that had been shaped by decades of disinvestment in public health, health systems, and social protection, as well as privatization of wealth and gaping social inequalities within and between countries, and the evident crisis of confidence in the capacity of democratic political institutions and global governance was deepened by the pandemic. Yamin argues that transformative human rights praxis in health calls for addressing issues of structural inequality and political economy, and working across disciplinary silos through networks and social movements.Trade Review"In an increasingly unequal, fragmented, and unaccountable global order in which intellectual property rights trump health rights, this extraordinary book is a powerful call – by a scholar-activist dedicated to converting 'misfortune to be endured into injustice to be remedied' – to pursue human rights transformatively, to advance connection, dignity, equality, and social justice."—Jackie Dugard, Columbia University"This book makes you believe in the power of invoking human rights to advance health justice, especially if you're doubtful, despondent, or simply new to the topic. It is filled with stories that ignite a fire in you to do something, and insights to think through what you might do."—Seye Abimbola, University of Sydney"Alicia Yamin is able to combine, in a way that very few authors can, a sensitive and empathetic account of the tragic consequences of the widespread denial of the right to health with a deeply informed critique of global health policies. This book offers not only deep insights into the struggles to achieve health and social equality, but explains in highly readable and accessible terms what needs to be done. A wonderful read and an inspired guide."—Philip Alston, Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University and former UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights (2014-2020)"Yamin's book is a story of hope and the resilience that highlights how individuals, communities, and societies can confront power asymmetries and shift them to realise their health and human rights. The book provides a compelling account for students of health and human rights and for advocates on how human rights can be applied to transform the narrative from 'misfortune to be endured' to one of 'injustice to be remedied'."—Rajat Khosla, The Lancet"Yamin's book is a 'must read' for those emerged in the struggle for a healthy society, and for students of any stage of learning who seek to understand the history of and the potential of the human right to health."—Louise C. Ivers, ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin AmericaPraise for the first edition "Yamin draws on years of practical field experience to speak with unique authority among human rights scholars about the global and national dynamics that systematically produce poverty and health inequalities across the world."—Paul E. Farmer, Harvard University, and Co-Founder and Chief Strategist of Partners In HealthTable of ContentsIntroduction: Allegorizing the World Chapter 1: Indignation and Injustice Chapter 2: The Significances of Suffering Chapter 3: Diverging Parables of Progress Chapter 4: Dystopian Modernization Chapter 5: Global Crises, Pandemics, and Norms Chapter 6: Inequality, Democracy, and Health Rights Chapter 7: Power, Politics, and Knowledge Conclusions: The Struggle for the World We Want
£68.00
Stanford University Press When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: Evolving Human
Book SynopsisWhen Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades. Alicia Ely Yamin weaves together theory and firsthand experience in a compelling narrative of how evolving legal norms, empirical knowledge, and development paradigms have interacted in the realization of health rights, and challenges us to consider why these advances have failed to produce greater equality within and between nations. In this revised and expanded second edition, Yamin incorporates crucial lessons learned about the state of global health equity and public health systems during the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrating just how incompatible the current institutionalized world order—based on neoliberal, financialized capitalism—is with one in which the rights of diverse people around the globe can be realized. COVID-19 struck a world that had been shaped by decades of disinvestment in public health, health systems, and social protection, as well as privatization of wealth and gaping social inequalities within and between countries, and the evident crisis of confidence in the capacity of democratic political institutions and global governance was deepened by the pandemic. Yamin argues that transformative human rights praxis in health calls for addressing issues of structural inequality and political economy, and working across disciplinary silos through networks and social movements.Trade Review"In an increasingly unequal, fragmented, and unaccountable global order in which intellectual property rights trump health rights, this extraordinary book is a powerful call – by a scholar-activist dedicated to converting 'misfortune to be endured into injustice to be remedied' – to pursue human rights transformatively, to advance connection, dignity, equality, and social justice."—Jackie Dugard, Columbia University"This book makes you believe in the power of invoking human rights to advance health justice, especially if you're doubtful, despondent, or simply new to the topic. It is filled with stories that ignite a fire in you to do something, and insights to think through what you might do."—Seye Abimbola, University of Sydney"Alicia Yamin is able to combine, in a way that very few authors can, a sensitive and empathetic account of the tragic consequences of the widespread denial of the right to health with a deeply informed critique of global health policies. This book offers not only deep insights into the struggles to achieve health and social equality, but explains in highly readable and accessible terms what needs to be done. A wonderful read and an inspired guide."—Philip Alston, Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University and former UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights (2014-2020)"Yamin's book is a story of hope and the resilience that highlights how individuals, communities, and societies can confront power asymmetries and shift them to realise their health and human rights. The book provides a compelling account for students of health and human rights and for advocates on how human rights can be applied to transform the narrative from 'misfortune to be endured' to one of 'injustice to be remedied'."—Rajat Khosla, The Lancet"Yamin's book is a 'must read' for those emerged in the struggle for a healthy society, and for students of any stage of learning who seek to understand the history of and the potential of the human right to health."—Louise C. Ivers, ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin AmericaPraise for the first edition "Yamin draws on years of practical field experience to speak with unique authority among human rights scholars about the global and national dynamics that systematically produce poverty and health inequalities across the world."—Paul E. Farmer, Harvard University, and Co-Founder and Chief Strategist of Partners In HealthTable of ContentsIntroduction: Allegorizing the World Chapter 1: Indignation and Injustice Chapter 2: The Significances of Suffering Chapter 3: Diverging Parables of Progress Chapter 4: Dystopian Modernization Chapter 5: Global Crises, Pandemics, and Norms Chapter 6: Inequality, Democracy, and Health Rights Chapter 7: Power, Politics, and Knowledge Conclusions: The Struggle for the World We Want
£23.79
Bristol University Press Pandemic Legalities: Legal Responses to COVID-19
Book SynopsisThe effects of COVID-19 are visited disproportionately on the already disadvantaged. This important text maps out ways in which those already disadvantaged have been affected by legal responses to COVID-19. Contributors tackle issues including virtual trials, adult social care, racism, tax and spending, education and more. They reflect on the implications of COVID-19 and express concerns with policy and practice developments and with the neutral version of the law and the economy which has taken root. Drawing on diverse resources, this text offers an account of the damage caused by legal responses to the pandemic and demonstrates how the future response can be positive and productive.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Dave Cowan and Ann Mumford Part 1 ~ Justice Ruling the Pandemic ~ Dave Cowan Remote Justice and Vulnerable Litigants: The Case of Asylum ~ Nick Gill Virtual Poverty? What Happens When Criminal Trials Go Online? ~ Linda Mulcahy Genera-Relational Justice in the COVID-19 Recovery Period: Children in the Criminal Justice System ~ Kathryn Hollingsworth Racism As Legal Pandemic: Thoughts on Critical Legal Pedagogies ~ Foluke Adebisi and Suhraiya Jivraj Rights and Solidarity During COVID-19 ~ Simon Halliday, Jed Meers and Joe Tomlinson COVID-19 PPE Extremely Urgent Procurement in England: A Cautionary Tale for an Overheating Public Governance ~ Albert Sanchez-Graells Part 2 ~ the Social Accountability for Health and the NHS in Post-Brexit COVID-19 UK: The ‘Left Behind’ and the Rule of Law ~ Tamara Hervey, Ivanka Antova, Mark Flear and Matthew Wood COVID-19 in Adult Social Care: Futures, Funding and Fairness ~ Rosie Harding Housing, Homelessness and COVID-19 ~ Rowan Alcock, Helen Carr and Ed Kirton-Darling Education, Austerity and the COVID-19 Generation ~ Alison Struthers What Have We Learned About the Corporate Sector in COVID-19? ~ Sally Wheeler Social Security Under and After COVID-19 ~ Jed Meers Maintaining the Divide: Labour Law and COVID-19 ~ Katie Bales From Loss to (Capital) Gains: Reflections on Tax and Spending in the Pandemic Aftermath ~ Ann Mumford and Kathleen Lahey
£76.50
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Economics of Health Law
Book SynopsisRonen Avraham, David Hyman and Charles Silver, leading authorities in their fields, discuss the effects of economic and legal constraints and regulation on healthcare. They examine the impact of access to healthcare on mortality and clinical outcomes and investigate healthcare financing, including payment to providers, expanding costs, health insurance and the provision of long-term care. The distribution of spending and the expansion of provision are also investigated. The regulatory aspect includes discussions on the regulation of healthcare practice, medical malpractice and liability, and public health and ethical issues.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I Introduction Ronen Avraham, David A. Hyman and Charles M. Silver PART I ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE: HEALTHCARE, MORTALITY AND OTHER CLINICAL OUTCOMES 1. Andrew P. Wilper, Steffie Woolhandler, Karen E. Lasser, Danny McCormick, David H. Bor and David U. Himmelstein (2009), ‘Health Insurance and Mortality in US Adults’, American Journal of Public Health, 99 (12), December, 2289–95 2. Richard Kronick (2009), ‘Health Insurance Coverage and Mortality Revisited’, HSR: Health Services Research, 44 (4), August, 1211–31 3. Katherine Baicker, Sarah L. Taubman, Heidi L. Allen, Mira Bernstein, Jonathan H. Gruber, Joseph P. Newhouse, Eric C. Schneider, Bill J. Wright, Alan M. Zaslavsky and Amy N. Finkelstein (2013), ‘The Oregon Experiment – Effects of Medicaid on Clinical Outcomes’, New England Journal of Medicine, 368 (18), May 2, 1713–22 PART II FINANCING HEALTH CARE A Payment Structure and Incentives 4. Ching-to Albert Ma and Thomas G. McGuire (1997), ‘Optimal Health Insurance and Provider Payment’, American Economic Review, 87 (4), September, 685–704 5. Sherry Glied and Joshua Graff Zivin (2002), ‘How Do Doctors Behave When Some (But Not All) of Their Patients are in Managed Care?’, Journal of Health Economics, 21 (2), March, 337–53 6. Thomas L. Greaney (2009), ‘Economic Regulation of Physicians: A Behavioral Economics Perspective’, Saint Louis University Law Journal, 53, 1189–209 7. Austin B. Frakt (2011), ‘How Much Do Hospitals Cost Shift? A Review of the Evidence’, Milbank Quarterly, 89 (1), March, 90–130 B Cost Drivers 8. Joseph P. Newhouse (1992), ‘Medical Care Costs: How Much Welfare Loss?’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 6 (3), Summer, 3–21 9. Burton A. Weisbrod (1991), ‘The Health Care Quadrilemma: An Essay on Technological Change, Insurance, Quality of Care, and Cost Containment’, Journal of Economic Literature, XXIX (2), June, 523–52 10. Einer Elhauge (1997), ‘The Limited Regulatory Potential of Medical Technology Assessment’, Virginia Law Review, 82, 1525–617 C Health Insurance 11. Kenneth J. Arrow (1963), ‘Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care’, American Economic Review, LIII (5), December, 941–73 12. Mark V. Pauly (1968), ‘The Economics of Moral Hazard’, American Economic Review, 58 (3), Part I, June, 531–7 13. Kenneth J. Arrow (1968), ‘The Economics of Moral Hazard: Further Comment’, American Economic Review, 58 (3), Part 1, June, 537–9 14. Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra (2008), ‘Myths and Misconceptions about U.S. Health Insurance’, Health Affairs, 27 (6), October, w533–w543, content.healthaffairs.org, accessed 13 August 2013 15. Sherry A. Glied (2005), ‘The Employer-Based Health Insurance System: Mistake or Cornerstone?’, in David Mechanic, Lynn B. Rogut, David C. Colby and James R. Knickman (eds), Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care, Chapter 3, Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 37–52 D Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection 16. John A. Nyman (2004), ‘Is “Moral Hazard” Inefficient? The Policy Implications of a New Theory’, Health Affairs, 23 (5), September–October, 194–9 17. David M. Cutler and Sarah J. Reber (1998), ‘Paying for Health Insurance: The Trade-off between Competition and Adverse Selection’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 113 (2), May, 433–66 E Long-Term Care 18. Mark V. Pauly (1990), ‘The Rational Nonpurchase of Long-Term-Care Insurance’, Journal of Political Economy, 98 (1), February, 153–68 19. Jeffrey R. Brown and Amy Finkelstein (2011), ‘Insuring Long-Term Care in the United States’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 25 (4), Fall, 119–41 and ‘Appendix: Calculating Loads and Comprehensiveness’, http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.25.4.119. Accessed 25.02.2014, 1-13 PART III DISTRIBTUTION OF SPENDING AND CROWD-OUT 20. Katherine Baicker, Amitabh Chandra and Jonathan S. Skinner (2005), ‘Geographic Variation in Health Care and the Problem of Measuring Racial Disparities’, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 48 (1), Supplement, Winter, S42–S53 21. Tomas J. Philipson, Seth A. Seabury, Lee M. Lockwood, Dana P. Goldman and Darius N. Lakdawalla (2010), ‘Geographic Variation in Health Care: The Role of Private Markets’ and ‘Comment and Discussion’, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring, 325–55, 56–61 22. David M. Cutler and Jonathan Gruber (1996), ‘Does Public Insurance Crowd out Private Insurance?’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111 (2), May, 391–430 PART IV COMPETITION AND FRAGMENTATION IN THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY 23. David Hyman (2010), ‘Health Care Fragmentation: We Get What We Pay For’, in Einer Elhauge (ed.), Fragmentation of U.S. Health Care: Causes and Solutions, Chapter 2, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 23–36 24. Thomas (Tim) Greaney (2009), ‘Competition Policy and Organizational Fragmentation in Health Care’, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, 71 (2), 217–39 Index Volume II Contents: An introduction to both volumes by the editors appears in Volume I PART I REGULATION OF HEALTH CARE PRACTICE A Drugs and Devices 1. Anup Malani and Tomas Philipson (2012), ‘The Regulation of Medical Products’, in Patricia Danzon and Sean Nicholson (eds), Oxford Handbook of the Economics of the Biopharmaceutical Industry, Chapter 5, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 100–42 2. Michelle M. Mello, Sara Abiola and James Colgrove (2012), ‘Pharmaceutical Companies’ Role in State Vaccination Policymaking: The Case of Huyman Papillomavirus Vaccination’, American Journal of Public Health, 102 (5), May, 893–8 B Licensure and Guidelines 3. Ronen Avraham (2011), ‘Clinical Practice Guidelines – The Warped Incentives in the U.S. Healthcare System?’, American Journal of Law and Medicine, 37 (1), Spring, 7–40 4. Shirley Svorny (1993), ‘Advances in Economic Theories of Medical Licensure’, Federation Bulletin: The Journal of Medical Licensure and Discipline, 80 (1), Spring, 27–32 C Provider Rankings 5. Peter K. Lindenauer, Denise Remus, Sheila Roman, Michael B. Rothberg, Evan M. Benjamin, Allen Ma and Dale W. Bratzler (2007), ‘Public Reporting and Pay for Performance in Hospital Quality Improvement’, New England Journal of Medicine, 356 (5), February, 486–96 6. David Dranove, Daniel Kessler, Mark McClellan and Mark Satterthwaite (2003), ‘Is More Information Better? The Effects of “Report Cards” on Health Care Providers’, Journal of Political Economy, 111 (3), June, 555–88 PART II MEDICAL MALPRACTICE AND LIABILITY 7. Richard A. Epstein (1976), ‘Medical Malpractice: The Case for Contract’, American Bar Foundation Research Journal, 1 (1), 87–149 8. Jennifer Arlen (2013), ‘Economic Analysis of Medical Malpractice Liability and Its Reform’, in Jennifer Arlen (ed.), Research Handbook on the Economics of Tort, Chapter 2, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 33–69 9. Kenneth S. Abraham and Paul C. Weiler (1994), ‘Enterprise Medical Liability and the Evolution of the American Health Care System’, Harvard Law Review, 108 (2), December, 381–436 10. Kathryn Zeiler, Bernard S. Black, Charles Silver, David A. Hyman and William M. Sage (2008), ‘Physicians’ Insurance Limits and Malpractice Payments: Evidence from Texas Closed Claims, 1990-2003’, Journal of Legal Studies, 36 (S2), June, S9–S45 11. David M. Studdert, Michelle M. Mello, Atul A. Gawande, Tejal K. Gandhi, Allen Kachalia, Catherine Yoon, Ann Louise Puopolo and Trojen A. Brennan (2006), ‘Claims, Errors, and Compensation Payments in Medical Malpractice Litigation’, New England Journal of Medicine, 354 (19), May, 2024–33 12. Daniel Kessler and Mark McClellan (1996), ‘Do Doctors Practice Defensive Medicine?’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111 (2), May, 353–90 13. Daniel P. Kessler (2011), ‘Evaluating the Medical Malpractice System and Options for Reform’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 25 (2), Spring, 93–110 14. Ronen Avraham, Leemore S. Dafny and Max M. Schanzenbach (2012), ‘The Impact of Tort Reform on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums’, Journal of Law Economics and Organization, 28 (4), October, 657–86 15. Janet Currie and W. Bentley MacLeod (2008), ‘First Do No Harm? Tort Reform and Birth Outcomes’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123 (2), May, 795–830 PART III PUBLIC HEALTH A Infections and Antibiotic Resistance 16. Ramanan Laxminarayan and Anup Malani (2011), ‘Economics of Infectious Diseases’, in Sherry Glied and Peter C. Smith (eds), Oxford Handbook of Health Economics, Chapter 9, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 189–205 17. William M. Sage and David A. Hyman (2010), ‘Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance: Regulatory Strategies and Institutional Capacity’, Tulane Law Review, 84 (4), March, 781–840 B Obesity 18. Ronen Avraham and K.A.D. Camara (2007), ‘The Tragedy of Human Commons’, Cardozo Law Review, 29 (2), November, 479–511 [33] 19. Tomas Philipson (2001), ‘The World-Wide Growth in Obesity: An Economic Research Agenda’, Health Economics, 10, 1–7 20. Tomas J. Philipson and Richard A. Posner (2008), 'Is the Obesity Epidemic a Public Health Problem? A Review of Zoltan J. Acs and Alan Lyles's Obesity, Business and Public Policy', Journal of Economic Literature, 46 (4), December, 974–82 PART IV ETHICAL ISSUES 21. Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Margaret P. Battin (1998), ‘What are the Potential Cost Savings from Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide?’, New England Journal of Medicine, 339 (3), July, 167–72 22. Judd B. Kessler and Alvin E. Roth (2012), ‘Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate’, American Economic Review, 102 (5), August, 2018–47 23. Jason Snyder (2010), ‘Gaming the Liver Transplant Market’, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 26 (3), December, 546–68 Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Global Tobacco Epidemic and the Law
Book SynopsisTobacco use represents a critical global health challenge. The World Health Organization estimates that tobacco kills nearly 6 million people a year, with the toll expected to rise to 8 million annually over the next two decades. Written by health and legal experts from institutions around the globe, The Global Tobacco Epidemic and the Law examines the key areas of domestic and international law affecting the regulation of tobacco.The book offers a wide-ranging and in-depth exploration of relevant legal questions, including a focus on the activities of the World Health Organization and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, as well as an extensive evaluation of relevant developments in international trade law and international investment law. The authors' expert analysis also sheds light on broader questions relating to the capacity of governments to regulate tobacco products and the tobacco industry, as reflected in detailed case studies of tobacco control in various countries and regions around the world. The answers to these questions are of vital interest to the international community, with states' regulatory sovereignty regarding tobacco increasingly being challenged in local and international courts and tribunals.Combining unique insight with rigorous analysis, this book will facilitate a more sophisticated understanding of the legal issues concerning tobacco control and will be of interest to lawyers, diplomats, policymakers and NGOs, as well being a valuable resource for scholars of law, public policy and health.Contributors: N. Boister, O.A. Cabrera, J. Carballo, R. Cunningham, M. Davison, K. DeLand, L. Gruszczynski, P. Henning, L. Hsu, J. Liberman, G. Lien, T-y. Lin, C-f. Lo, A. Mitchell, L. Shmatenko, D. Singh, J. Strawbridge, T. Tucker, T. Voon, H. Wipfli, C-F. Wu, A. YadavTrade Review‘The book is destined to become a reference point for scholars and practitioners alike. This is even more the case if one considers the fact that the volume constitutes a valuable addition to the state-of-the-art and other co edited volumes of the coeditors. This important collection illustrates the extent to which convergence between international law and domestic law is occurring.’ -- Melbourne Journal of International LawTable of ContentsContents Introduction Andrew D Mitchell and Tania Voon Part I: TOBACCO CONTROL IN THE CONTEXT OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION 2 .The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and the Tobacco Free Initiative Katherine DeLand, Gemma Lien and Heather Wipfli 3. Guidelines and Protocols under the Framework Convention Chang-fa Lo 4. The Power of the WHO FCTC: Understanding its Legal Status and Weight Jonathan Liberman 5. The European Anti-Fraud Office and the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products Neil Boister Part II: Tobacco Control in the Context of International Trade and Investment 6. The WTO Ruling on the United States’ Flavoured Cigarettes Ban Todd Tucker 7. The WHO FCTC as an International Standard under the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade Lucasz Gruszczynski 8. Disputes Regarding Tobacco Control Measures under Investor−State Arbitration Tsai-Yu Lin 9. Tobacco Control in ASEAN Locknie Hsu 10. International Trade Policy and Tobacco Products under the Obama Administration Jamie Strawbridge Part III: Tobacco Control Around the World 11. Tobacco Control in Europe: The Potential for Plain Packaging Peter K Henning and Leonid Shmatenko 12. Tobacco Control in Canada Rob Cunningham 13. Tobacco Control in Latin America Oscar A Cabrera and Juan Carballo 14. Tobacco Control in Australia: The High Court Challenge to Plain Packaging Mark Davison 15. Tobacco Control in Taiwan Chuan-Feng Wu 16. Tobacco Control in India Amit Yadav and Deepti Singh Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Global Health Law
Book SynopsisThis two-volume set gathers together some of the most significant contributions to the study of global health law. Global health law is a recent field of research in its own right, encompassing the relatively narrow core of international rules and institutions devoted to health protection and promotion, as well as the complex interactions between health and multiple areas of international law. By bringing such diverse perspectives into a single collection, together with an original introduction by the editor, this book will be an important resource for scholars and practitioners both in public health as well as in legal and policy fields such as trade and investment, human rights and the environment.Trade Review‘This is an indispensable collection of seminal contributions to global health law. Global health law has come a long way in a short time, but it remains in its infancy. The issues are huge, complex and vital – and they demand interdisciplinarity. As we search for global approaches to global health problems, these twin volumes of primarily legal perspectives will provide an extremely rich resource.’ -- Paul Hunt, University of Essex School of Law, UKTable of ContentsContents: Volume I Introduction Gian Luca Burci PART I GLOBAL HEALTH LAW IN GENERAL AND GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE 1. Gian Luca Burci (2009), ‘Public/Private Partnerships in the Public Health Sector’, International Organizations Law Review, 6 (2), 359–82 2. David P. Fidler (1999), ‘International Law and Global Public Health’, University of Kansas Law Review, 48 (1), November, 1–58 3. Lawrence O. Gostin (2008), ‘Global Health: Meeting Basic Survival Needs of the World’s Least Healthy People: Toward a Framework Convention on Global Health’, Georgetown Law Journal, 96 (2), January, 331–92 4. Lawrence O. Gostin and Allyn L. Taylor (2008), ‘Global Health Law: A Definition and Grand Challenges’, Public Health Ethics, 1 (1), April, 53–63 5. Jonathan Liberman (2012), ‘Combating Counterfeit Medicines and Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products: Minefields in Global Health Governance’, Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 40 (2), Summer, 326–47 6. Jennifer Prah Ruger (2008), ‘Normative Foundations of Global Health Law’, Georgetown Law Journal, 96 (2), January, 423–43 PART II WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND GLOBAL HEALTH LAW 7. David P. Fidler (1998), ‘The Future of the World Health Organization: What Role for International Law?’, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 31 (5), November, 1079–126 8. Allyn Lise Taylor (1992), ‘Making the World Health Organization Work: A Legal Framework for Universal Access to the Conditions for Health’,American Journal of Law and Medicine, XVIII (4), 301–46 9. Allyn L. Taylor, Lenias Hwenda, Bjørn-Inge Larsen and Nils Daulaire (2011), ‘Stemming the Brain Drain — A WHO Global Code of Practice on International Recruitment of Health Personnel’, New England Journal of Medicine, 365 (25), December, 2348–51 10. Gaudenz Silberschmidt, Don Matheson and Ilona Kickbusch (2008), ‘Creating a Committee C of the World Health Assembly’, The Lancet, 371, May, 1483–6 PART III COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY 11. Obijiofor Aginam (2005), ‘Bio-Terrorism, Human Security and Public Health: Can International Law Bring Them Together in an Age of Globalization?’, Medicine and Law, 24 (3), September, 455–62 12. David P. Fidler (2003), ‘Public Health and National Security in the Global Age: Infectious Diseases, Bioterrorism, and Realpolitik’, George Washington International Law Review, 35, 787–856 13. David P. Fidler (2005), ‘From International Sanitary Conventions to Global Health Security: The New International Health Regulations’, Chinese Journal of International Law, 4 (2), November, 325–92 14. K. Lee and D. Fidler (2007), ‘Avian and Pandemic Influenza: Progress and Problems with Global Health Governance’, Global Public Health, 2 (3), July, 215–34 15. Barbara von Tigerstrom (2005), ‘The Revised International Health Regulations and Restraint of National Health Measures’, Health Law Journal, 13, 35–76 16. Gian Luca Burci (2014), ‘Ebola, the Security Council and the Securitization of Public Health’, Questions of International Law: Zoom In, 10, December, 27–39 PART IV INTERNATIONAL TOBACCO CONTROL: THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON TOBACCO CONTROL 17. Alberto Alemanno and Enrico Bonadio (2011), ‘Do You Mind My Smoking? Plain Packaging of Cigarettes Under the TRIPS Agreement’, John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law: Special Issue, 10 (3), 450–75 18. Oscar A. Cabrera and Lawrence O. Gostin (2011), ‘Human Rights and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Mutually Reinforcing Systems’, International Journal of Law in Context: Special Issue: Health and Human Rights, 7 (3), September, 285–303 19. Carolyn Dresler and Stephen Marks (2006), ‘The Emerging Human Right to Tobacco Control’, Human Rights Quarterly, 28 (3), August, 599–651 20. Jonathan Liberman (2014), ‘The Power of the WHO FCTC: Understanding its Legal Status and Weight’, in Andrew D. Mitchell and Tania Voon (eds), The Global Tobacco Epidemic and the Law, Chapter 4, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 48–63 21. Sean D. Murphy (2003), ‘Liability and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control’, International Law FORUM du droit international, 5 (1), February, 62–71 22. Tania Voon (2013), ‘Flexibilities in WTO Law to Support Tobacco Control Regulation’, American Journal of Law and Medicine, 39 (2–3), 199–217 23. Tania Voon and Andrew Mitchell (2011), ‘Time to Quit? Assessing International Investment Claims against Plain Tobacco Packaging in Australia’, Journal of International Economic Law, 14 (3), September, 515–52 Volume II Introduction An introduction by the editor appears in Volume I PART I NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES 1. Roger S. Magnusson (2007), ‘Non-Communicable Diseases and Global Health Governance: Enhancing Global Processes to Improve Health Development’, Globalization and Health, 3 (2), May, 1–16 2. A. Mitchell and T. Voon (2011), ‘Implications of the World Trade Organization in Combating Non-Communicable Diseases’, Public Health, 125 (12), December, 832–9 3. Allyn L. Taylor and Ibadat S. Dhillon (2013), ‘An International Legal Strategy for Alcohol Control: Not a Framework Convention —At Least Not Yet’, Addiction, 108 (3), March, 450–55 4. Bryan Thomas and Lawrence O. Gostin (2013), ‘Tackling the Global NCD Crisis: Innovations in Law and Governance’, Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics: Special Issue: Symposium: Global Health and the Law, 41 (1), Spring, 16–27 5. Tania Voon (2013), ‘WTO Law and Risk Factors for Non- Communicable Diseases: A Complex Relationship’, in Geert van Calster and Denise Prévost (eds), Research Handbook on Environment, Health and the WTO, Chapter 13, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 390–408 6. Benn McGrady and Alexandra Jones (2013), ‘Tobacco Control and Beyond: The Broader Implications of United States—Clove Cigarettes for Non-Communicable Diseases’, American Journal of Law and Medicine, 39 (2–3), 265–89 PART II HEALTH AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW A International Trade Law 7. Jeffery Atik (2009), ‘Trade and Health’, in Daniel Bethlehem, Donald McRae, Rodney Neufeld and Isabelle van Damme (eds), The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law, Chapter 21, Oxford, UK and New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press, 597–618 8. Panagiotis Delimatsis (2013), ‘GATS and Public Health Care: Reflecting on an Uneasy Relationship’, in Geert van Calster and Denise Prévost (eds), Research Handbook on Environment, Health and the WTO, Chapter 12, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 363–89 9. Allyn L. Taylor (2007), ‘Addressing the Global Tragedy of Needless Pain: Rethinking the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs’, Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics: Symposium, 35 (4), Winter, 556–70 B International Intellectual Property Rights Law 10. Frederick M. Abbott (2005), ‘The WTO Medicines Decision: World Pharmaceutical Trade and the Protection of Public Health’, American Journal of International Law, 99 (2), April, 317–58 11. Philippe Cullet (2003), ‘Patents and Medicines: The Relationship between TRIPS and the Human Right to Health’, International Affairs, 79 (I), January, 139–60 C International Investment Law 12. Valentina S. Vadi (2012), ‘Global Health Governance at a Crossroads: Trademark Protection v. Tobacco Control in International Investment Law’, Stanford Journal of International Law, 48 (1), 93–130 13. Rahim Moloo and Justin Jacinto (2011), ‘Environmental and Health Regulation: Assessing Liability Under Investment Treaties’, Berkeley Journal of International Law, 29 (1), 1–65 D Pharmaceutical Research and Development 14. Steven J. Hoffman and John-Arne Røttingen (2012), ‘Assessing Implementation Mechanisms for an International Agreement on Research and Development for Health Products’, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 90 (11), November, 854–61, 863 15. Dawn Joyce Miller (2001), ‘Research and Accountability: The Need for Uniform Regulation of International Pharmaceutical Drug Testing’, Pace International Law Review, 13 (1), Spring, 197–232 PART III HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS: THE RIGHT TO HEALTH 16. L. Gable, L. Gostin and J.G. Hodge, Jr. (2009), ‘A Global Assessment of the Role of Law in the HIV/AIDS Pandemic’, Public Health: Special Issue, 123 (3), March, 260–64 17. Sofia Gruskin (2004), ‘Is There a Government in the Cockpit: A Passenger’s Perspective or Global Public Health: The Role of Human Rights’, Temple Law Review, 77 (2), Summer, 313–33 18. Benjamin Mason Meier (2010), ‘Global Health Governance and the Contentious Politics of Human Rights: Mainstreaming the Right to Health for Public Health Advancement’, Stanford Journal of International Law, 46 (1), 1–50 19. Benjamin Mason Meier and Larisa M. Mori (2005), ‘The Highest Attainable Standard: Advancing a Collective Human Right to Public Health’, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 37 (1), Fall, 101–47 20. George P. Smith, II (2005), ‘Human Rights and Bioethics: Formulating a Universal Right to Health, Health Care, or Health Protection?’, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 38 (5), November, 1295–321 21. Brigit Toebes (2009), ‘Right to Health and Health Care’, in David P. Forsythe (ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Rights: Volume II, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 365–76 PART IV HEALTH AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, INCLUDING ACCESS TO BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES 22. Frederick M. Abbott (2010), ‘An International Legal Framework for the Sharing of Pathogens: Issues and Challenges’, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development Programme on Intellectual Property Rights and Sustainable Development, Issue Paper No. 30, Geneva, Switzerland: International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, October, i, 1–45 23. Jason Carter (2010), ‘WHO’s Virus is it Anyway? How the World Health Organization can Protect Against Claims of “Viral Sovereignty”’, Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law: Symposium: International Human Rights and Climate Change, 38 (3), 717–40 24. Stefania Negri (2010), ‘Waterborne Disease Surveillance: The Case for a Closer Interaction between the UNECE Protocol on Water and Health and the International Health Regulations (2005)’, International Community Law Review, 12 (3), 287–302 Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Pharmaceuticals, Corporate Crime and Public
Book SynopsisDukes, Braithwaite and Moloney reach the depressing conclusion that 'corporate crime in the pharmaceutical industry appears to be on the rise.' Their approach to this problem is much more nuanced than just throwing people in jail. They advocate for a pyramid of regulatory strategies including qui tam legislation and equity fines. There is an opportunity for a radical transformation of the pharmaceutical industry and the authors offer us a road map to begin that journey.'- Joel Lexchin MD, York University, CanadaThe pharmaceutical industry must exist to serve the community, but over the years it has engaged repeatedly in corporate crime and anti-social behavior, with the public footing the bill. This readable study by experts in medicine, law, criminology and public health, with deep experience of the industry, documents problems ranging from false advertising and counterfeiting to corruption, fraud and overpricing. It is a fresh and revealing look at the unacceptable pressures brought to bear on doctors, politicians, patients and the media.Uniquely, the book presents realistic and worldwide solutions for the future, with positive policies encouraging honest dealing, as well as partial privatization of enforcement and a transformation of science policy to develop the medicines that society needs most. The authors examine in turn each of the main facets of the pharmaceutical industry's activities - research, manufacturing, information, distribution and pricing - as well as some questionable aspects of its relationship with society.Offering a considered analysis of pharmaceutical rights and wrongs as they have developed, particularly over the last half-century, this book is rich in new insights for managers in the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory agencies and health agencies.Contents: Essay Part I: Setting the Scene Introduction Part II: A View of Rights and Wrongs 1. Creating a Medicine: Why, How and How Not 2. Safe, Unsafe and Improper Manufacturing Practices 3. Aggressive or Misleading Promotion 4. The Dark Art of Manipulation: The Industry and its Puppets 5. Corruption, Counterfeiting and Fraud 6. Prices, Monopolies, Abuses and the Law Part III: Transforming the Way Ahead 7. A Criminological Perspective on a Worsening Crisis 8. Positive Regulation: The Complementary Role of Supports and Sanctions 9. A Responsive Criminal Law of Pharmaceuticals 10. Privatising Enforcement 11. A New Capitalism: A New Drug Diplomacy IndexTrade Review'This well-researched book explains in plain language what pharmaceutical companies want and what they claim to desire – two very different things. Covering topics ranging from falsified data to misleading advertising. Dukes, Braithwaite, and Moloney reveal how Big Pharma lines its pockets and those of its shareholders by manipulating virtually every aspect of drug manufacturing and marketing. This is essential, thorough, and balanced information for anyone in health care, life science, or the drug manufacturing industry.' -- Wolf von Laer, Journal of the History of Economic Thought‘Dukes, Braithwaite and Moloney reach the depressing conclusion that “corporate crime in the pharmaceutical industry appears to be on the rise.” Their approach to this problem is much more nuanced than just throwing people in jail. They advocate for a pyramid of regulatory strategies including qui tam legislation and equity fines. There is an opportunity for a radical transformation of the pharmaceutical industry and the authors offer us a road map to begin that journey.’ -- Joel Lexchin MD, York University, Canada‘Given the provenance, this book was always going to be excellent, but it exceeded my highest expectations. It’s one of those rare works that combine true scholarship with great imagination and ends up also a real pleasure to read. The breadth of analysis is remarkable and the modelling for better futures is superb. It’s more than a must read book; it is a must heed commentary, a blueprint for better public health that would be perilous to ignore.’ -- Charles Medawar, Founder of Social Audit and author of Power and Dependence: Social Audit on the Safety of Medicines‘This is a powerful book that demands to be read by all those concerned about the health of nations. It is also a call to arms for criminologists to turn a scholarly eye to the plethora of harms and crimes perpetrated by the pharmaceutical industry. Our response to this is long overdue.’ -- Paddy Rawlinson, Australian & New Zealand Journal of CriminologyTable of ContentsContents: Essay Part I: Setting the Scene Introduction Part II: A View of Rights and Wrongs 1. Creating a Medicine: Why, How and How Not 2. Safe, Unsafe and Improper Manufacturing Practices 3. Aggressive or Misleading Promotion 4. The Dark Art of Manipulation: The Industry and its Puppets 5. Corruption, Counterfeiting and Fraud 6. Prices, Monopolies, Abuses and the Law Part III: Transforming the Way Ahead 7. A Criminological Perspective on a Worsening Crisis 8. Positive Regulation: The Complementary Role of Supports and Sanctions 9. A Responsive Criminal Law of Pharmaceuticals 10. Privatising Enforcement 11. A New Capitalism: A New Drug Diplomacy Index
£40.80
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Changing Landscape of Food Governance: Public
Book SynopsisThis book makes a major contribution to our understanding of how significantly food governance is changing at both the national and international levels. What is particularly noteworthy about this volume is how clearly and comprehensively it integrates the important public and private dimensions of food governance.'- David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley, USThis book examines the changing landscape of food governance. Within this landscape, both public and private regulators increasingly encounter one another as markets have become more globalized. While these encounters may often be planned, long-term and lead to positive relationships and outcomes, they can also be accidental collisions that result in antagonistic relationships and crisis. Empirically, this book investigates these public and private encounters in food governance and the institutional challenges they raise. Importantly, it also explores the public policy responses to these issues at the national, supranational and transnational levels, and investigates new forms of private food regulation.Against this empirical backdrop, the contributors provide insights into broader analytical issues that have animated regulatory governance scholarship such as the legitimacy and effectiveness of public and private regulation, the distribution of power in regulatory arrangements, the interaction of layers and networks of regulation and regulatory responses to crisis.This comprehensive book will be of great value to those interested in gaining an interdisciplinary understanding of the empirical area of food governance and the analytical issues of regulatory governance.Contributors include: G. Abels, J.P. Burns, F. Casarosa, D. Casey, N. Collins, V.Constant LaForce, R. van Dalen, G. Enticott, E. Fagotto, D. Fuchs, M. Gobbato, J.-C. Gottwald, T. Havinga, A. Kalfagianni, A. Kobusch, R. Lee, J. Li, P. Oosterveer, H. van der Voort, F. van Waarden, X. WangTrade Review‘The Changing Landscape of Food Governance: Public and Private Encounters is an interdisciplinary book, edited by three scholars with expertise in law examining the recent transformation of food governance. . . . This volume is a good survey of the current food governance landscape. . . . Overall this volume is organized, well-written, and a persuasive and enjoyable read.’ -- Agriculture and Human Values‘This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of how significantly food governance is changing at both the national and international levels. What is particularly noteworthy about this volume is how clearly and comprehensively it integrates the important public and private dimensions of food governance.’ -- David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Changing Regulatory Arrangements in Food Governance Tetty Havinga, Donal Casey and Frans van Waarden 2. Conceptualizing Regulatory Arrangements: Complex Networks and Regulatory Roles Tetty Havinga PART II PUBLIC POLICY RESPONSES TO FOOD SAFETY CHALLENGES 3. Regulation of Food Safety in the EU: Explaining Organizational Diversity Among Member States Gabriele Abels and Alexander Kobusch 4. Buying Biosecurity: UK Compensation for Animal Diseases Gareth Enticott and Robert Lee 5. Being Well Fed: Food Safety Regimes in China Neil Collins and Jörn-Carsten Gottwald 6. The Political Economy of Chinese Food Safety Regulation: Distributing Adulterated Milk Powder in Mainland China and Taiwan John P. Burns, Jing Li and Xiaoqi Wang PART III NEW FORMS OF PRIVATE FOOD GOVERNANCE 7. Authority and Legitimacy in Governing Global Food Chains Peter Oosterveer 8. The Effectiveness of Private Food Governance in Fostering Sustainable Development Agni Kalfagianni and Doris Fuchs 9. Food Quality through Networks in the European Wine Industry Federica Casarosa and Marco Gobbato 10. Markets Regulating Markets: Competitive Private Regulation by Halal Certificates Frans van Waarden and Robin van Dalen PART IV HOW PUBLIC AND PRIVATE REGULATION MEET 11. Are We being Served? The Relationship between Public and Private Food Safety Regulation Elena Fagotto 12. Between Public and Private Requirements: Challenges and Opportunities for the Export of Tropical Fruits from Developing Countries to the EU Vanessa Constant LaForce 13. The Meta-governance of Co-regulation: Safeguarding the Quality of Dutch Eggs Haiko van der Voort Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on EU Health Law and Policy
Book SynopsisThe steady expansion of the European Union's involvement in health over the past 20 years has been accelerated by recent events. This Handbook offers an up-to-date analytical overview of the most important topics in EU health law and policy. It outlines, as far as possible, the direction of travel for each topic and suggests research agendas for the future. Split into five parts, this book brings together international, interdisciplinary contributions to consider the past, present and future of EU health law and policy. The changing membership of the EU could see dramatic changes for EU health law and policy: the contributors consider current developments in the light of past trajectories. The book covers key institutions; policies on people and products; health systems; public health; and the health implications of the EU's external trade policies and laws. Wide-ranging and accessible, this Handbook will appeal to academics and students focussing on EU health law or policy. It will also be of interest to lawyers and policy makers working in or with the EU as well as health managers and NGOs.Contributors include: A. Alemanno, O. Bartlett, L.E. Bishop, E. Brosset, A. de Ruijter, A. den Exter, G. Dussault, M.L. Flear, M. Frischhut, A. Garde, I. Goldner Lang, S.L Greer, M. Guy, T.K. Hervey, H. Jarman, M. Koivusalo, E. Kuhlmann, C. Larsen, A. Mahalatchimy, C.B. Maier, D.S Martinsen, J.V. McHale, N. Mijatovic, E. Pavolini, M. Pilgerstorfer, C. Rieder, C.S. Rusu, W. Sauter, T. Sokol, M.-I. Ungureanu, J.W. van de Gronden, C.A. YoungTrade Review'This book, with contributions from scholars across the Europe and up-to-the-minute coverage of Brexit and its implications, will prove indispensable to anyone interested in health law in the EU, be they within or without Europe.' --(Glenn Cohen, Harvard Law School)'This important new book offers a clear and informative guide to EU health law and policy, but it also does much more than that. The tensions at the heart of the EU's engagement with health are tackled head-on, as are the implications of the Eurozone crisis and Brexit. Through its 19 engaging and lively chapters, this is the best account to date of EU health law and policy's uncomfortable position at the intersection between the promotion of free trade, on the one hand, and public health, on the other.' --(Emily Jackson, London School of Economics, UK)Table of ContentsContents: Foreword Martin McKee Introduction Tamara K. Hervey, Calum Young and Louise E. Bishop Part I History, Scope, Institutions 1. The History and Scope of EU Health Law and Policy Mary Guy and Wolf Sauter 2. Governing EU Health Law and Policy – On Governance and Legislative Politics Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen 3. Courts and EU Health Law and Policies Clemens M. Rieder 4. Fundamental Rights and EU Health Law and Policy Calum Alasdair Young Part II People and Products 5. EU Law, Policy and Health Professional Mobility Ellen Kuhlmann, Claudia B. Maier, Gilles Dussault, Christa Larsen, Emmanuele Pavolini and Marius-Ionuț Ungureanu 6. European Union Biomedical Research Law and Policy and Citizen Science Mark L. Flear 7. EU Law and Policy on Pharmaceuticals Marketing and Post-Market Control Including Product Liability Marcus Pilgerstorfer 8. EU Law and Policy on New Health Technologies Estelle Brosset and Aurélie Mahalatchimy 9. EU Law and Policy on Human Materials Jean V. McHale and Aurélie Mahalatchimy 10. eHealth Law: The Final Frontier? André den Exter Part III Systems 11. EU Competition Law and Policy and Health Systems Johan W. van de Gronden and Catalin S. Rusu 12. EU Health Law and Policy and the Eurozone Crisis Tomislav Sokol and Nikola Mijatović Part IV Public Health 13. EU Public Health Law and Policy – Communicable Diseases Markus Frischhut and Scott L. Greer 14. EU Public Health Law and Policy – Tobacco Alberto Alemanno 15. EU Public Health Law and Policy - On the Rocks? A Few Sobering Thoughts on the Growing EU Alcohol Problem Oliver Bartlett and Amandine Garde 16. Public Health in European Union Food Law Iris Goldner Lang Part V The External Dimension 17. Trade and Health in the European Union Holly Jarman and Meri Koivusalo 18. The EU’s (Emergent) Global Health Law and Policy Tamara K. Hervey Conclusions 19. The Impediment of Health Laws’ Values in the Constitutional Setting of the EU Anniek de Ruijter Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd From Chasing Violations to Managing Risks:
Book SynopsisGovernment rules and inspectors can be an important tool to ensure trust in markets, and to protect citizens against hazards. There is, however, a perception that businesses and individuals only comply with rules because of the threat of punishment. From Chasing Violations to Managing Risks examines what actually makes people change their behaviour and how to effectively achieve the objectives of regulations.Building on decades of research, Florentin Blanc examines the development of inspection institutions and their practices, and assesses their varying effectiveness, and the reasons behind this. Bringing together historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives, Blanc provides '?large scale?' testing of models through comparative case studies considering practices and their outcomes. By examining case studies, Blanc also assesses how inspection institutions might accomplish better results with less bureaucracy, comparing in particular occupational safety across France, Germany and Great Britain, identifying the key differences between the three, and asking how Britain has achieved a better safety record with fewer inspections (but more efforts to manage risks through other instruments).This book will be invaluable for practitioners of regulatory reform and public administration, as well as for students and researchers of these topics who will benefit from the unique synthesis of historical, theoretical and practical perspectives on the subject.Trade Review'A serious historical and empirical examination of inspections is long overdue and this is it. Florentin Blanc has perfect credentials based on widespread global experience and academic rigour to undertake this task and succeeds brilliantly. He highlights the evidence on the use, effectiveness and limitations of inspections as a technique, which should be pondered by all regulators and governments.' --Christopher Hodges, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Inspections, risks and circumstances: historical development, diversity of structures and practices 3. Theoretical underpinnings: costs and effectiveness, compliance drivers, discretion issues, risks and regulation 4. Inspections and enforcement: a view from the practice 5. Conclusion Bibliography Index
£120.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Ending Childhood Obesity: A Challenge at the
Book SynopsisThis edited book is the first to reflect on childhood obesity as a global legal challenge. It calls for a thorough commitment to human rights in the face of an ascendant global agri-food industry. The book makes an original contribution to the discussion on obesity as it considers both international economic law and human rights law perspectives on the issue whilst also examining the relationship between these two bodies of international law.After highlighting the importance of a human rights-based approach to obesity prevention, this book discusses the relevance of international economic law to the promotion of healthier food environments. It then examines the potential of international human rights law for more effective regulation of the food industry, arguing for better coordination between UN actors and more systematic reliance on human rights tools, including: the best interests of the child principle, human rights due diligence processes, and the imposition of extraterritorial obligations. The concluding chapter reflects on recurring themes and the added value of a WHO Framework Convention on Obesity Prevention.This book will be of interest to public health scholars, particularly those working on obesity and non-communicable diseases, and those with a broader interest in children's rights, human rights, international trade, investment, consumer or food law and policy. It will also be relevant to policy actors working to improve nutrition and public health globally.Trade Review'Childhood obesity is a hugely serious human rights problem. The contributions to this volume engage in a thoughtful and thought-provoking way with the topic. In doing so, they focus on the potential - and limitations - of law as part of a multisectoral, multi-level human rights-based response to childhood obesity as a human, health social, economic, ecological, development and legal challenge. The contributions address key sub-disciplines of law, particularly international economic law to international human rights law, in order to demonstrate their respective relevance with regard to efforts to address childhood obesity.' -- Aoife Nolan, University of Nottingham, UK'To my fellow economists, this book will provide a stimulating approach to childhood obesity policies. The key underlying idea - a brilliant one - is to reconsider these policies in the light of the legal corpus governing children's protection and their right to health. The book then mixes conceptual analyses and case studies to propose a precise and pragmatic vision of the legal issues raised by the regulation of food markets, in particular the compatibility of national policies with international trade rules. A must-read for anyone interested in why and how the latest economic analyses play a crucial role in contemporary debates on the legitimacy and legal feasibility of public health policies!' -- Fabrice Etile, Paris School of Economics and INRAE, France'This book is a unique and new contribution to the now extensive policy-related work on ending childhood obesity. The authors take a human rights approach to this very pressing and important problem arguing persuasively that the law can and should be mobilised against it. The major targets for such intervention are food and other multinational corporations, whose practices come under close scrutiny. This volume is an essential read and resource for policy makers involved in health matters and for all who are involved in childhood obesity intervention.' -- Stanley Ulijaszek, University of Oxford, UK'Ending Childhood Obesity is an authoritative source that advances the case for a greater role of law in tackling the root causes of obesity as a public health emergency within the current global food environment. It is a must read for all those who are engaged - be they public health professionals, policymakers or health advocates - in combating NCDs both locally and globally.' -- Alberto Alemanno, HEC Paris, FranceTable of ContentsContents: 1 Ending childhood obesity: Introducing the issues and the legal challenge 1 Amandine Garde, Joshua Curtis and Olivier De Schutter PART I HUMAN RIGHTS APPROACH TO CHILDHOOD OBESITY PREVENTION 2 International human rights and childhood obesity prevention 30 Sarah A Roache and Oscar A Cabrera 3 The child’s right to health as a tool to end childhood obesity 57 Katharina Ó Cathaoir and Mette Hartlev 4 Human rights, childhood obesity and health inequalities 86 Marine Friant-Perrot and Nikhil Gokani PART II UTILISING THE SPACE AVAILABLE FOR REGULATORY MEASURES UNDER INTERNATONAL ECONOMIC LAW 5 Sugar as commodity or health risk: The unmaking or remaking of international trade law? 112 Gregory Messenger 6 Using food labelling laws to combat childhood obesity: Lessons from the EU, the WTO and Codex 138 Caoimhín MacMaoláin 7 Investment protection agreements, regulatory chill, and national measures on childhood obesity prevention 161 Mavluda Sattorova 8 International trade and childhood obesity: A Caribbean perspective 185 Nicole Foster PART III ADDITIONAL TOOLS AVAILABLE UNDER HUMAN RIGHTS LAW 9 Can the United Nations system be mobilized to promote human rights-based approaches in preventing and ending childhood obesity? 219 Wenche Barth Eide and Asbjørn Eide 10 Combatting obesogenic commercial practices through the implementation of the best interests of the child principle 251 Amandine Garde and Seamus Byrne 11 Multinational food corporations and the right to health: Achieving accountability through mandatory human rights due diligence? 282 Oliver Bartlett 12 Bridging governance gaps with extraterritorial human rights obligations: Accessing home State courts to end childhood obesity 309 Joshua Curtis 13 Overcoming the legal challenge to end childhood obesity: Pathways towards positive harmonization in law and governance 339 Joshua Curtis and Amandine Garde Index 370
£131.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Regulation of E-cigarettes: International,
Book Synopsis'The 20th century has been described as the century where governments allowed cigarettes to kill more than 100 million people (i.e. more than the first and second World Wars and the holocaust together). This excellent book is a timely study of the complex, regulatory challenges of e-cigarettes. The review of the scientific evidence relating to electronic cigarettes in Part I - and of international and European regulatory approaches in Part II - of this interdisciplinary, comparative study demonstrates the need for multilevel health governance with due regard to international human rights law, world trade law and health law. European health and risk regulations aim at respecting EU fundamental rights, EU constitutional law principles (e.g. precautionary, subsidiarity and proportionality principles) and legitimate ''constitutional pluralism'' in multilevel health governance. The case-studies of American and Chinese regulations of e-cigarettes in Part III of this book illustrate that ''Chinese state-capitalism'' (e.g. its denial of human rights and constitutional protection of citizens) and Anglo-American neo-liberalism (e.g. its frequent neglect of economic and social rights and international public goods) offer less comprehensive protection of citizen interests, as also confirmed by the current 'US-China trade wars'. Professor Gruszczynski's innovative book succeeds in demonstrating the complexity of ''ordo-liberal'' trade and health regulations of ''market failures'' and ''governance failures'' reconciling civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights and health risks.' - Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, European University Institute, Italy Combining the insights of leading legal scholars and public health experts, this timely book provides up-to-date analysis of the various legal problems emerging at different levels of governance (international, European and national) in the context of the regulation of e-cigarettes. Expert contributors investigate the possible application of the precautionary and harm reduction principles in this area, examining the legal constraints imposed on states by international and European rules, as well as the regulatory approaches currently in place in selected national jurisdictions. This ground-breaking book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the topic, combining insights from medical, public health and legal perspectives. The Regulation of E-cigarettes will be essential reading for both legal and public health scholars and students. Providing a comprehensive and in-depth assessment of the regulatory solutions applied to e-cigarettes, it will also be a key resource for governmental officials, NGO's and public health advocates. Trade Review'E-cigarettes have radically complicated the landscape of public health aims, agendas, and strategies, especially given the context of the tobacco endgame. They bring multiple layers of scientific, as well as political and regulatory, complexity and disagreement. This carefully-curated volume brings competing voices and perspectives, and at once highlights a crucial variety of considerations at the core of agendas to promote governance for health, and underscores the challenges we find in reason and reasoning within an environment of polarisation and uncertainty.' --John Coggon, University of Bristol, UK'This unique book addresses one of the most important challenges facing the tobacco control community today. Should regulators treat e-cigarettes as a public health threat or rather as a chance to fully eradicate the tobacco epidemic? Gruszczynski's interdisciplinary volume provides a much-needed map that can help answer this question.' --Witold Zatonski, Health Promotion Foundation, Poland'This is a fascinating collection of chapters on the regulation of an uncertain, ambiguous and controversial topic. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the multitude of perspectives on the topic of e-cigarettes and the law. The volume contains contributions from both advocates of more lenient regimes and contributions propagating a stricter regulation. In addition, it contains chapters from different regions, from the global level as well as from different legal fields.' --Wouter Werner, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands and University of Curacao, CuracaoTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Regulating e-cigarettes in the face of uncertainty Lukasz Gruszczynski Part I Science, regulation and e-cigarettes 2. Divide and conquer? E-cigarettes as a disruptive technology in the history of tobacco control Mateusz Zatoński and Allan M. Brandt 3. Review of the scientific evidence relating to electronic cigarettes: Where do we stand now? Charlie A. Smith, Aleksandra Herbeć and Lion Shahab Part II International and European law perspectives 4. Taming the Schrödinger cat: E-cigarettes under the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Lukasz Gruszczynski 5. A human rights approach to the regulation of electronic cigarettes Marie Elske C. Gispen and Jacquelyn D. Veraldi 6. A ban on Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems: Step one into the WTO discrimination analysis Marina Foltea and Bryan Mercurio 7. Regulating e-cigarettes at the EU level Anna Pudło and Lukasz Gruszczynski 8. Vaping and the precautionary principle in EU law Giancarlo A. Ferro and Costanza Nicolosi Part III National law perspectives 9. E-cigarette regulation in Taiwan and China Chuan-Feng Wu, Ching-Fu Lin and Mao-Wei Lo 10. Regulation of e-cigarettes in US law Patricia I. Kovacevic 11. One does not simply sell e-cigarettes in Australia: An overview of Australian e-cigarette regulations Coral Gartner and Marilyn Bromberg Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Technology, Innovation and Healthcare: An
Book SynopsisThis timely book emphasizes the importance of regulation in enabling and channelling innovation at a time when technology is increasingly embedded in healthcare. It considers the adequacy of current regulatory approaches, identifying apparent gaps, risks and liabilities, and discusses how these might be collectively addressed. The authors present possible solutions that balance the protection and promotion of public trust in healthcare against enabling technological progress and disruptive innovation.Offering both a theoretical and practical approach to challenges at the intersection of healthcare, law and technology, this thought-provoking book explores broad questions of regulation and innovation before analysing contextual applications of these topics. It moves from a wide-ranging consideration of the polycentric and changing nature of health regulation through to a more specific examination of topics including patient consent, the role of device representatives, privacy, artificial intelligence and big data.Providing an international perspective, Technology, Innovation and Healthcare will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of health law, innovation, technology law, law and development and law and society. It will also be of benefit to lawyers, healthcare professionals, technology developers and policy makers, seeking to better integrate technology with healthcare.Trade Review‘The authors summarize the challenges to managing technology in health care, explain how technology impacts care, and offer some exciting and innovative solutions. This is an interesting read for anyone contemplating a career in health care and those already in the field. Many current issues that impact everyday practice, such as data storage, patient privacy, beneficence, fair access to health care, patient autonomy, and professionalism and qualifications of health care providers, are explored. The text includes an excellent discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of technology for health care and addresses the regulations that guide innovative technology use so that laws protect both patients and providers. The role of regulations, national and international, is explained with equal attention to theory and practical rationale. In addition to its appeal for readers preparing for careers in health care, the book will interest policy makers and health care consumers. The text includes an excellent discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of technology for health care and health care consumers. The comprehensive chapter bibliographies will support any reader in delving into more detail as desired. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers.’ -- S C Grossman, CHOICE‘This is an excellent analysis of the relationship between law, innovation, technology, medicine and regulation. The book deals with both generalities at the beginning, then more specific issues – such as AI and data – that are both important now and will become even more so in the future. I can highly recommend it.’ -- José Miola, University of Leeds, UKTable of ContentsContents: PART I SETTING THE SCENE 1. Introduction to Technology, Innovation and Healthcare 2. The essence of innovation PART II INNOVATION AND THE PATIENT 3. Engaging with the voices in the regulatory enterprise in healthcare 4. Consent and innovation – embracing the unknown and empowering the patient 5. The role of medical device representatives in healthcare PART III INNOVATION AS THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE 6. When the treatment team involves non-humans: questions of responsibility 7. What does privacy mean in an era of big data? 8. Algorithms, trust and the use of big data in healthcare decisions Final thoughts Bibliography Index
£90.76
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Human Rights and Tobacco Control
Book SynopsisLarge-scale adverse health and developmental outcomes related to tobacco affect millions of people across the world, raising serious questions from a human rights perspective. In response to this crisis, this timely book provides a comprehensive analysis of the promotion and enforcement of human rights protection in tobacco control law and policy at international, regional, and domestic levels. This thought-provoking book offers significant new insights to the topic, laying the foundations for a human rights based approach to tobacco control. Addressing the function of law as a tool to help combat one of the major public health challenges facing society, contributions by global scholars rebut human rights claims presented by the tobacco industry. Emphasis is instead placed upon the human rights of vulnerable individuals, children in particular, as a result of smoking and exposure to second-hand smoke. Illustrating ways in which the right to health can be advanced with regards to tobacco control, smoking and the use of e-cigarettes, this important book will be a vital resource for human rights and health law scholars and practitioners as well as policy makers in public health law. Contributors include: D. Barrett, D. Beyleveld, O.A. Cabrera, A. Constantin A. Garde, M.E. Gispen, L. Gruszczynski, J. Hannah, S. Karjalainen, L. Lane, S. Lierman, A.L. McCarthy, A. Mitchell, S. Negri, O. Nnamuchi, M. Roberts, A. Schmidt, M. Sormunen, A. Taylor, B. Toebes, M. van Westendorp, Y. ZhangTrade Review'Marie Elske Gispen and Brigit Toebes have written a book of worldwide importance and impact. Tobacco is still the leading preventable cause of death globally. Big Tobacco poses a major threat to the right to health. Using a human rights lens, Gispen and Toebes powerfully show how human flourishing demands bold action on tobacco control. The authors are thought leaders globally on health and human rights. Their book is both a superb work of scholarship and a call to action for public health and human rights scholars and advocates everywhere.' --Lawrence O. Gostin, Georgetown University, US'Human rights law, at international, regional and national levels, offers important concepts and processes for strengthening tobacco control. Understanding this, the tobacco industry has also sought to co-opt human rights laws and concepts to serve its economic interests. The importance of human rights law to tobacco control is not well understood, which is why this book - convening the leading experts in this emerging field - is such a welcome and important contribution.' --Roger Magnusson, The University of Sydney, Australia'A well conceptualized and comprehensive volume on a key issue of our time. Varied in their approach to the topic, the pieces brought together here move from the global to the regional to the national, highlighting the interplay between legal systems, and show how human rights-based approaches to tobacco can support specific measures and actions. Illustrating not only how tobacco can be understood as a human rights concern but where human rights arguments fall short, this book shows how critical attention to ethical, normative and legal arguments may move us forward not only in rhetorical but actionable ways.' --Sofia Gruskin, University of Southern California, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Danius Puras 1. Introduction Marie Elske Gispen PART 1 NORMATIVE REFLECTIONS 2. Dignity, vulnerability and human agency in the context of tobacco Deryck Beyleveld 3. Is there a human right to tobacco control? Andreas Schmidt PART 2 INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS APPROACHES TO TOBACCO CONTROL AND THEIR LINK TO OTHER FIELDS OF LAW 4. Tobacco control in international human rights law Oscar Cabrera and Andrés Constantin 5. Accountability, human rights and the responsibilities of the tobacco industry Lottie Lane 6. Is there a European human rights approach to tobacco control? Amandine Garde and Brigit Toebes 7. Exploring the role of the ASEAN in fostering human rights approaches to tobacco control in Southeast Asia Yi Zhang 8. Tobacco use, exploitation and vulnerability in Africa: a human rights analysis Obiajulu Nnamuchi 9. Tobacco control in the Inter-American human rights system Oscar Cabrera and Andrés Constantin 10. Human rights in the origins of the FCTC Allyn Taylor and Alisha McCarthy 11. Human rights and tobacco control: lessons from illicit drugs Damon Barrett and Julie Hannah 12. The role of IEL dispute settlement bodies in reinforcing the sovereign rights of States in the field of tobacco control Lukasz Gruszczynski PART 3 SPECIFIC ELEMENTS OF TOBACCO CONTROL LAW AND POLICY IN LIGHT OF HUMAN RIGHTS 13. Smoke-free environments: lessons from Italy Stefania Negri 14. The tobacco endgame: experiences from Finland Milka Sormunen and Sakari Karjalainen 15. E-cigarettes in Belgium : while the smoke clears the fog rises Steven Lierman and Mathijs van Westendorp 16. Human rights and tobacco plain packaging in Australia Andrew Mitchell and Marcus Roberts 17. Conclusions Brigit Toebes Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Regulatory Stewardship of Health Research:
Book SynopsisThis timely book examines the interaction of health research and regulation with law through empirical analysis and the application of key anthropological concepts to reveal the inner workings of human health research. Through ground-breaking empirical inquiry, Regulatory Stewardship of Health Research explores how research ethics committees (RECs) work in practice to both protect research participants and promote ethical research. This thought-provoking book provides new perspectives on the regulation of health research by demonstrating how RECs and other regulatory actors seek to fulfil these two functions by performing a role of 'regulatory stewardship'. This involves guiding researchers through stages of research approval, as well as seeking to maximise benefits for participants and society while minimising risks. Arguing that participant protection and research promotion should rightly be treated as twin objectives for health research regulators, this book asserts that there is a need for more overt recognition of the importance and function of the deliberative space in which RECs can negotiate the risks relevant to a research application. This book is a key resource for academics and students interested in health research and regulation, and the dynamic interaction of ethics and the law. Regulators and policy-makers will also find it to be an insightful and illuminating text for the practical insights that it reveals about research governance in action.Trade Review'This excellent book presents an original and intriguing insight into the ''black box'' of decisions made by Research Ethics Committees (RECs). Put simply, if you want to understand the changes that ethics review and research governance has undergone over the past ten to fifteen years, then this book is required reading. In its intense empirical approach to a topic normally addressed in rather more theoretical terms Regulatory Stewardship of Health Research lays down a challenge to socio-legal studies of regulation, pushing debates towards what he calls an ''anthropology of regulation'', drawing explicit attention to processes, passages, and change inherent in the regulation of modern medical research.' --Adam Hedgecoe, Cardiff University, UK'Dove's careful and detailed analysis of the regulatory system for health research is a refreshing and valuable contribution to theory and practice of ethics review committees - and not just for the UK, but for any jurisdiction thinking seriously about the twin goals of protecting research participants while promoting research. Researchers, research ethics committees, regulators and the public will each find insights about the ways society can make research better for all.' --Eric M. Meslin, Council of Canadian Academies, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Conceptual framework—setting the scene for ‘protection’ and ‘promotion’ 3. The making of RECs as health research regulators 4. Anthropology of regulation 5. Operationalising ‘next-generation’ health research regulation—what is happening in practice? 6. Charting a framework for regulatory stewardship 7. Conclusion Index
£90.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on International Food Law
Book SynopsisWith contributions from over 30 international legal scholars, this topical Research Handbook on International Food Law provides a reflective and crucial examination of the rules, power dynamics, legal doctrines, societal norms, and frameworks that govern the modern global food system. The Research Handbook analyses the interlinkages between producers and consumers of food, as well as the environmental effects of the global food network and the repercussions on human health. Chapters explore the development of food law and governance strategies, the regulation of novel foods, including insects, and the application of technology and science in food production, such as genetically engineered food. The insightful contributions examine the legal challenges facing the global food system and suggest practical recommendations for future research and reform. Providing a comprehensive and interdisciplinary perspective on the complex legal landscape of food production and consumption, this Research Handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars of food law, consumer law, public international law, and regulation and governance, as well as food system advocates, international lawyers, and policymakers.Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: making a case for international food law 1 Michael T. Roberts PART I DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL FOOD LAW ROLE OF LAW IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OF FOOD 2 What’s the use of food regime analysis for international law? 17 Anne Saab 3 Food law’s agrarian question: capital, global farmland, and food security in an age of climate disruption 29 William Boyd 4 The intersection of international, European, and global food law: rules, trends, and challenges 63 Ferdinando Albisinni DEVELOPMENT OF FOOD LAW AND GOVERNANCE STRATEGIES 5 Drafting national food laws in a globally connected world 95 Jessica Vapnek and Melvin Spreij 6 The future of planning for food system governance 117 Laurie J. Beyranevand and Emily M. Broad Leib CULTURAL PRESERVATION IN DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL FOOD LAW 7 The food–water nexus in the post-revolutionary Mexican Supreme Court 148 Peter L. Reich 8 Food law and third-world approaches to international law (TWAIL): ingredients in a movement, techniques for analysis, recipes for reform, and a future menu 166 Ernesto Hernández-López 9 Community and geography in a holistic approach to food law 183 Marsha A. Echols COMPARATIVE LAW APPLIED TO FOOD LAW 10 Comparative food law 199 Bernd van der Meulen and Bart Wernaart PART II INTERNATIONAL FOOD GOVERNANCE AND LAW FRAMEWORKS FOOD TRADE AND SAFETY 11 Global governance of food safety: the role of the FAO, WHO, and Codex Alimentarius in regulatory harmonization 227 Neal D. Fortin 12 Interactions between food safety protection and trade liberalization in the WTO and FTAs 243 Ching-Fu Lin 13 The Food Safety Modernization Act and international trade rules 261 David A. Wirth 14 ESG, supply chain due diligence and food systems transformation: changes and challenges 291 Uché Ewelukwa Ofodile 15 The regulation of insects as food 315 Steph Tai 16 Food safety governance and good practices for better rulemaking 332 Juanjuan Sun 17 Codex Alimentarius at home and abroad: the regulatory costs of developing and implementing international and national food-safety standards 347 Brian A. Fink LABELING AND CERTIFICATION 18 Sugar labeling: challenges and approaches 369 Alexia Brunet Marks 19 Private third-party verification of product claims: lessons from kosher certification 387 Timothy D. Lytton 20 Class action litigation targeting the food industry: U.S. and international perspectives 409 Tommy Tobin ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND FOOD 21 Climate change issues in international food law 427 Francesco Bruno 22 Bodies as food system sacrifice zones 443 Margot J. Pollans TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE 23 The digital food economy, from food regulation to data governance 471 Pinghui Xiao and Vicki Waye 24 International regulation of genetically engineered food 498 Joanna K. Sax ANIMAL WELFARE 25 Using the law to enhance the welfare of food-producing animals: recognising sentience, raising standards 515 Caoimhín MacMaoláin HUMAN RIGHTS AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY 26 When crits go to the UN: conversations with Olivier De Schutter, Hilal Elver and Michael Fakhri about the right to food 534 Amy J. Cohen and Nadia C.S. Lambek Index 552 Prepared by Michael T. Roberts
£245.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Patient Safety and the Law
Book SynopsisDespite recurring efforts, a gap exists across a variety of contexts between the protection of patients’ safety in theory and in practice. This timely Research Handbook highlights these critical issues and suggests both legal and policy changes are necessary to better protect patients’ safety. Multidisciplinary in nature, this Research Handbook features contributions from eminent academics, policy makers and medical practitioners from the Global North and South, discussing the essential facets concerning patient safety and the law. It highlights how the role of legislation and case law has the potential to influence, both positively and negatively, medical practice and the quality of care. Chapters explore patient safety and the global health agenda; physiotherapy; ‘non-therapeutic’ clinical research with children; patient safety awareness in healthcare education; and the increasing use of robotics and artificial intelligence in healthcare.Outlining a wide range of international perspectives on patient safety and the law, this Research Handbook will appeal to academics and researchers specialising in health and medical law, human rights, and healthcare regulation. It will also serve as a valuable resource for legal and medical practitioners alike, as well as clinicians and professionals working in healthcare governance.Trade Review‘An essential guide to assessing the systemic failures that put patient safety and well-being at risk, the Research Handbook on Patient Safety and the Law explores the challenges to improved patient care using multi-disciplinary and international perspectives. The book provides an in-depth exploration of the legal, ethical, and policy issues at work and offers pragmatic responses to the complex array of factors that endanger patients.’ -- Barbara A. Reich, Professor of Law, Western New England University School of Law, US‘“First do no harm”, we're told. But in the legal literature patient safety is very far from the first consideration. This fascinating and comprehensive Research Handbook redresses the imbalance. Essential reading for everyone concerned with medical law, ethics and governance.’ -- Charles Foster, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Patient safety and the law: an introduction 1 John Tingle, Caterina Milo, Gladys Msiska, and Ross Millar 2 The need for more conceptual underpinning in NHS patient safety and clinical negligence policy development 10 John Tingle 3 The law and ethics of informed consent after Montgomery and the safeguard of patients’ safety 22 Caterina Milo 4 ‘Non-therapeutic’ clinical research with children: responsibility in the balance? 37 Amber Dar 5 Balancing on a knife edge: patient safety and autonomy in the psychiatric context 56 Mollie E. L. Cornell 6 The role of tort law in protecting patient safety and autonomy in Australia 74 Barbara McDonald 7 Healthcare in conflict: legally protected, physically at risk 90 Emma J. Breeze 8 Does legalising abortion reduce deaths from unsafe abortion? Experiences in sub-Saharan Africa 108 Calum Miller 9 Physiotherapy in the UK: the second victim in a perfect storm? 125 Sue Greenhalgh, James Selfe, Laura Finucane, and Gillian Yeowell 10 Patient safety at the end of life: the role and limits of the law in England and Wales 141 Adam McCann 11 The ‘patient-friendly’ medical injury liability rules in Germany: implications for patient safety? 165 Marc Stauch 12 Patient safety in Germany 177 Dagmar Luettel, Victoria Klemm, and Reinhard Strametz 13 Patient safety, global governance, and the right to health in integrated primary health care 193 Jonathan Gorry, Linda Gibson, Denis Joseph Bukenya, Pauline Odeyemi, and Michael Obeng Brown 14 Patient safety and the global health agenda 206 Paulo Sousa, Ana Catarina Rodrigues, and José Pedro Teixeira 15 Patient safety in Uruguay 221 Homero Bagnulo, Alejandro Castello, and Carlos Vivas 16 Pregnancy and childbirth risks: clinical and legal perspectives 237 Pedro Melo, Abdea Coomarasamy, and Arri Coomarasamy 17 Patient safety challenges and practical ethical legal issues in low- and middle-income countries 257 Gladys Msiska, Evelyn Chilemba, Martha Kamanga, Chisomo Mulenga, Annie Namathanga, Patrick Mapulanga, and Abigail Kazembe 18 Child safety in developing countries 278 Felistas Chiundira and Pempho Katanga 19 Patient safety consciousness in healthcare education 297 Gladys Msiska, Gervasio Nyaka, Wanangwa Chikazinga, and Patricia Katowa-Mukwato 20 Developing patient safety standards 314 Helen Hughes 21 Dr Robot: robotics and AI in healthcare 336 Angela Eggleton 22 Patient safety and the law: a thematic review and assessment of future options 369 Ross Millar Index 377
£200.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Advanced Introduction to International Food Law
Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business, and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This Advanced Introduction provides a succinct overview of the principles and rules that guide international food law. Neal D. Fortin explores how the globalisation of food supply chains has impacted international food law, making it a pressing concern for contemporary lawmakers. Exploring the maintenance of standards, rules and laws, alongside issues in relation to economics, trade agreements, and free-trade, this comprehensive book provides insight into the future of international food law.Key Features: Offers a historical overview of international food law, covering the key basic concepts Provides insights into key international trade agreements, agencies, and food safety controls Provides guidance on techniques for comparing and understanding the food law of different regions Incisive and accessible, this Advanced Introduction offers invaluable discussion of the major issues in the field for international law scholars, particularly those focusing on food law. It will also be a beneficial read for government officials involved in international trade and lawyers who deal with international food law looking for a better understanding of the history and key components of the topic.Trade Review‘Neal D. Fortin is a gifted teacher. Fortin’s clarity of thought and expression, organization, and insight, which have long marked his teaching and leadership in international food law, are displayed vividly in this much needed book. Advanced Introduction to International Food Law is a terrific primer for the beginning food law scholar seeking to understand the framework of international food law and an essential resource for the seasoned food law scholar to consult frequently for information and context.’ -- Michael T. Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction and background 2. International food law at a glance 3. The law of international food trade 4. The WTO agreements and dispute settlement 5. Convergence, divergence, and complexity in global food law 6. Final thoughts Further Reading Index
£98.67
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Advanced Introduction to International Food Law
Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business, and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This Advanced Introduction provides a succinct overview of the principles and rules that guide international food law. Neal D. Fortin explores how the globalisation of food supply chains has impacted international food law, making it a pressing concern for contemporary lawmakers. Exploring the maintenance of standards, rules and laws, alongside issues in relation to economics, trade agreements, and free-trade, this comprehensive book provides insight into the future of international food law.Key Features: Offers a historical overview of international food law, covering the key basic concepts Provides insights into key international trade agreements, agencies, and food safety controls Provides guidance on techniques for comparing and understanding the food law of different regions Incisive and accessible, this Advanced Introduction offers invaluable discussion of the major issues in the field for international law scholars, particularly those focusing on food law. It will also be a beneficial read for government officials involved in international trade and lawyers who deal with international food law looking for a better understanding of the history and key components of the topic.Trade Review‘Neal D. Fortin is a gifted teacher. Fortin’s clarity of thought and expression, organization, and insight, which have long marked his teaching and leadership in international food law, are displayed vividly in this much needed book. Advanced Introduction to International Food Law is a terrific primer for the beginning food law scholar seeking to understand the framework of international food law and an essential resource for the seasoned food law scholar to consult frequently for information and context.’ -- Michael T. Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction and background 2. International food law at a glance 3. The law of international food trade 4. The WTO agreements and dispute settlement 5. Convergence, divergence, and complexity in global food law 6. Final thoughts Further Reading Index
£21.00
