Health Law

Author: Sun Dongdong, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: Health law is an emerging discipline in legal studies. Due to the rapid development of science and technology related to medical and healthcare, the pace of formulating, revising, and updating laws, regulations, and policies concerning new medical technologies, clinical applications of new drugs, healthcare management, public health prevention and control, as well as national health management and regulation has become extremely fast. As a result, the number of research topics and issues that health law needs to address has increased significantly, and there is an urgent need to organize new research findings in this field. This book was born in such an environment. The experts who participated in the compilation of this book are authorities currently active in the field of health law. They are grounded in the actual conditions of China's healthcare sector, focus on examining relevant health legal systems abroad, and combine the specific legislative context of China's health law with practical working needs. They discuss legal systems related to health resource management, public health supervision and management, disease prevention and control, health-related product regulation, blood and blood products, population and reproductive health, medical administration, traditional Chinese medicine management, health promotion, and health insurance. The book covers both fundamental legal theories and interpretations of legal provisions; it emphasizes both theoretical research and practical guidance for work; it incorporates both classic theories of traditional Chinese medicine and new healthcare systems; and it pays attention to both the comprehensiveness of the theoretical framework and the organization of content, as well as the introduction of research and learning methods in health law. This book can serve as a textbook for full-time undergraduate students in medical and healthcare universities, as well as for postgraduate and junior college students in related medical and healthcare fields. It can also be used as a reference book for legal researchers, judges, and lawyers engaged in health law research, teaching, and judicial practice.