Authored by the American College of Legal Medicine and the American Board of Legal Medicine, Legal Medicine: Health Care Law and Medical Ethics, 8th Edition, remains the premier treatise in this increasingly important area of medical practice. In the midst of a progressively litigious culture, this essential reference provides up-to-date information on topics surrounding professional medical liability, the business aspects of medical practice, and medicolegal and ethical issues, offering comprehensive discussions on a myriad of topics that healthcare professionals face every day.
Legal Medicine: Health Care Law and Medical Ethics, 8th Edition addresses the legal aspects of almost every medical topic that impacts health care professionals, using actual case studies to illustrate nuances in the law. It offers the expert guidance of top professionals across medical and legal fields in an easy-to-read format.
Key Features
- Addresses the legal aspects of almost every medical topic that impacts health care professionals, using actual case studies to illustrate nuances in the law.
- Offers the expert guidance of top professionals across medical and legal fields in an easy-to-read format.
- Includes new chapters on Legal Medicine History; Healthcare Technology; Patients with Infectious Diseases (HIV Infection and COVID-19); General Pain Management; Opioids and Illicit Drugs: Misuse, Abuse and Addiction; Cannabis (Marijuana); Drug (Treatment) Courts; and Public Health Law and Policy.
- Provides authoritative information on current issues such as the high costs of medical liability insurance for practitioners and organizations; changes in health care and the law, including HIPAA and patient privacy; the overturning of Roe v. Wade; the opioid epidemic, and more.
- Features Key Points boxes to open every chapter, Pearls boxes to call out important details, additional diagrams and tables throughout, a glossary of medical terms, and updated references and suggested readings.
- Serves as the syllabus for the Board Review Course of the American Board of Legal Medicine (ABLM).
- An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.
Author Information
By American College of Legal Medicine and American Board of Legal Medicine
Journal of Legal Medicine
Quarterly Publication
The Journal of Legal Medicine is one of the leading internationally circulated journals in its field. The Journal includes articles and commentaries on topics of interest in legal medicine, health law and policy, professional liability, hospital law, food and drug law, medical legal research and education, bioethics, the history of legal medicine, and a broad range of other related topics. Indexed in national and international databases, the Journal is circulated throughout the world. Articles contained in the Journal have been cited by state and federal courts (including the United States Supreme Court).
Past Issues of Journal of Legal Medicine
- Volume 42, Issue 1-2 (2022)
- Volume 41, Issue 1-2 – January 2022
- Volume 41, sup1 – January 2022
- Volume 40, Issue 1 – 2020
- Volume 40, sup1 – 2020
- Volume 40, Issue 2 – 2020
- Volume 40, sup2 – 2020
- Volume 40, Issue 3-4 – 2020
Legal Medicine Perspectives
Monthly Newsletter
ACLM’s Legal Medicine Perspectives (LMP) aims to share perspectives from physicians, attorneys, researchers, and students on timely issues of medicine and law. It also provides analyses of recent developments in federal and state courts, as well as recent statutory enactments by Congress and throughout the states.
