Health Care Law and Ethics in a Nutshell

by Mark A. Hall, Ira Ellman, David Orentlicher

This text focuses on the two areas of modern health care law: The legal and financial structure of health care, and bioethics. The increasing importance of both subjects is due in part to the incredible advances in medical technology. These advances have increased treatment options and thus costs, and generated many additional ethical problems, such as should a particular patient's life be extended by kidney dialysis or open heart surgery. The text provides the scope and highlights you need to excel in understanding this field. This will enable you to answer exam questions more quickly and accurately, and enhance your skills as an attorney.

Genres: Nonfiction

512 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1990

Reviews

[Ari · Rating 4 out of 5]

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

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

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

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