HEALTH LAW HB

• Hardback book by Barry R. Furrow, Sandra H. Johnson, Timothy S. Jost, and Robert L. Schwartz
• Over 1000 pages
• American Casebook Series
• Copyright © 1987 By WEST PUBLISHING CO.

Summary of Contents includes:

" INTRODUCTION
TABLE OF PROBLEMS
TABLE OF CASES

Chapter 1. Regulating the Quality of Health Care
I. Quality and Error
II. Licensing and Self-Regulation
III. Quality Control in the Institutional Setting

Chapter 2. Professional Liability
I. The Health Care Professional as Malpractice Defendant
II. The Institution as Defendant: From Charity to Target

Chapter 3. The Relationship of Physician and Patient
I. The Contract Between Patient and Physician
II. Informed Consent: The Physician's Obligation

Chapter 4. Reforming the Tort System for Medical Injuries
I. Responses to the Crisis
II. The Effects of Reform: A Preliminary Assessment
III. Alternative Approaches to Compensation of Patient Injury

Chapter 5. Health Care Institutions
I. Government Regulation of Health Care Institutions
II. Organizational Structure of Health Care Institutions
III. The Organization of Medical Practice

Chapter 6. Health Care Cost Control
I. Introduction
II. Health Planning and Certificate of Need
III. Utilization Review
IV. Private Utilization Review Activities
V. Rate Regulation
VI. Medicare Prospective Payment Under Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs)
VII. Private Insurance Cost-Containment Efforts
VIII. Competitive Solutions
IX. Afterthoughts

Chapter 7. Antitrust
I. Staff Privileges
II. Private Credentialing and Accreditation
III. Mergers, Acquisitions and Other Inter-Institutional Arrangements
IV. Health Care Financing

Chapter 8. Access to Health Care
I. The Obligation of Providers to Furnish Care
II. Government Health Care Programs: Medicare and Medicaid
III. Access to Advanced, Expensive Technology

Chapter 9. Establishing Personhood
I. Definitions of Life and Death
II. Issues Relating to Procreation

Chapter 10. Life and Death Decisions
I. Introduction: Principles of Autonomy and Beneficence
II. The "Right to Die" - Competent Patients
III. The "Right to Die" - Incompetent Patients
IV. Do Not Resuscitate Orders
V. Homicide and the "Right to Die"
VI. Tort Liability for Failure to Terminate Life-Support Systems
VII. The "Right to Die" - Seriously Ill Newborns

Chapter 11. Interdisciplinary Decisionmaking and Health Care Institutions
I. Introduction
II. Regulation of Medical Research - IRBs
III. Institutional Ethics Committees - IECs
IV. Other Interdisciplinary Case Review Agencies
V. National and State Commissions
VI. Doctor-Lawyer Relations and the Need for Interdisciplinary Training
Index "

It is in very good condition.
No torn or ripped pages.
There are a few dirt smudges on the side edges of the pages, mostly visible from the side view.
There are several pages with some highlighting and notations written in the margins.

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