Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Bloomer, Fiona / Campbell, Emma (eds.), Decriminalizing Abortion in Northern Ireland: Legislation and Protest. 288 pp. 2022:11 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <677-484>
ISBN 978-0-7556-4257-1 hard ¥26,037.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

Northern Ireland stands out as having enacted historical positive change in abortion law, from an almost complete ban in the 20th century to the decriminalization achieved in 2019. This book documents and analyzes how this historical change was achieved. Each chapter is written by those directly involved in the long-fought battle to change abortion law - including those with personal experience of seeking abortions, activists, academics, legal experts, political actors, NGOs, and volunteers. In this, the first of two volumes, contributions focus on the legislative landscape of the process with particular emphasis on the importance of 'feminist legal work' - law-making influenced by the women most likely to be impacted by it.

Clark, Brietta R. / Brown, Erin C. Fuse / Gatter, R. et al., Health Law: Cases, Materials and Problems. 9th ed. (American Casebook Series) 1620 pp. 2022:3 (West, US) <677-485>
ISBN 978-1-68467-711-5 hard ¥62,515.- (税込) US$ 296.00 *

Thirty-five years ago, the first edition of this Health Law casebook quite literally defined the subject of Health Law in the United States. Today this book, cited by the United States Supreme Court and a host of other courts, remains the leading Health Law casebook in American law schools. The new 9th edition provides up-to-date coverage of the field in all of its complexity, while retaining the substantially slimmed-down size of the prior edition. The book offers new cases, statutory materials, and classroom-tested problems, along with succinct and sharpened notes, comments, charts, and other teaching materials. It is fully up-to-date as of mid-2021, including the many issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be supplemented by a regularly updated website and, if appropriate, printed supplements. This new edition centres the broader goal of a more just and equitable health care system. It incorporates issues of equity and justice throughout the overarching organization that health law teachers and students found so helpful in the prior editions. In this new edition, Chapter One considers health law and policy as part of a larger framework that encompasses justice and equity movements, and it reimagines traditional concerns of cost, access, quality, and choice in this framework. Chapters Two through Five address ways in which the law can contribute to the promotion of the quality of health care. In this edition, materials on the professional-patient relationship and medical malpractice have been carefully edited and combined into a single chapter. The second part of the text in Chapters Six through Ten is substantially updated, and the chapters reordered for this new edition. It now begins with an expanded chapter on discrimination and unequal treatment in health care, followed by an updated chapter explaining the options available to those who want to reform the American health care system. The chapters then provide a full analysis of the consequences of ERISA, an updated chapter addressing the ACA and its subsequent legal and political challenges, and a chapter on the two largest government health care financing programs-Medicare and Medicaid. The third part of the book in Chapters Eleven through Fifteen describes the role of the law in organizing the health care enterprise. This part includes updated materials on different ways in which the business of health care delivery can be organized and materials describing the legal relationships among different players in the health care enterprise. It includes separate chapters on professional relationships in health care, organizational structures and corporate law, tax, health care fraud and abuse, and the application of antitrust law to health care. Finally, the fourth part of the text in Chapters Sixteen through Twenty-One updates coverage of bioethics materials with a focus on issues currently being litigated or legislated, including abortion and contraception, conscience clauses, the definition of death, and medically assisted dying. The casebook also includes a review of legal regulation of research involving human subjects, and it concludes with a chapter that addresses current developments in population health. The casebook is written to challenge teachers and students on all sides of these issues. In this edition the torch has been passed to a new group of five authors who will be taking over future revisions of the casebook. These five new coauthors, all renowned for their teaching prowess as well as their academic work in Health Law, are Brietta Clark (LMU Loyola Law), Erin Fuse Brown (Georgia State), Robert Gatter (SLU), Elizabeth McCuskey (UMass) and Elizabeth Pendo (SLU).

J.E.B.マイヤーズ著　メンタル・ヘルス法　第3版
Myers, John E. B., Mental Health Law in a Nutshell. 3rd ed. (Nutshell Series) 275 pp. 2022:4 (West, US) <677-487>
ISBN 978-1-68561-039-5 paper ¥12,672.- (税込) US$ 60.00 *

Mental illness and intellectual disability (formerly called mental retardation) impact 20% of Americans, and have enormous personal, legal, and policy implications for patients, families, and society. This Nutshell introduces you to the broad range of criminal and civil issues in mental health law, including diagnosis of mental illness; expert testimony on mental health issues; civil commitment; competence to stand trial; the insanity defense; various competencies; ethical/legal issues facing mental health professionals, including informed consent, confidentiality, privilege, and malpractice; discrimination against persons with mental illness; financial and medical benefits for disabled persons.

Pruetting, Jens, Medical Law in Germany. 3rd ed. 144 pp. 2021:10 (Kluwer Law International, NE) <677-488>
ISBN 978-94-035-3861-7 paper ¥14,850.- (税込) EUR 60.00

Stavroulaki, Theodosia, Healthcare, Quality Concerns and Competition Law: A Systematic Approach. (Hart Studies in Law and Health) 272 pp. 2022:10 (Hart, UK) <677-489>
ISBN 978-1-5099-4334-0 hard ¥24,590.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Market driven healthcare is massively divisive. Opponents argue that a competition approach to medical treatment negatively impacts on quality, while advocates point to increased efficiencies. This book casts a critical eye over both positions to show that the concerns over quality are in fact real. Taking a two part approach, it unveils the fault lines along which healthcare provision and the pursuit of quality would in certain cases clash. It then shows how competition authorities can only effectively assess competition concerns when they ask the fundamental question of how the concept of healthcare quality should be defined and factored into their decisions. Drawing on UK, US and EU examples, it explores antitrust and merger cases in hospital, medical and health insurance markets to give an accurate depiction of the reality and challenges of regulating competition in healthcare provision.

Macleod, Sonia / Hodges, Christopher, No-Fault Approaches in the NHS: Raising Concerns and Raising Standards. (Civil Justice Systems) 240 pp. 2022:9 (Hart, UK) <677-446>
ISBN 978-1-5099-1665-8 hard ¥24,590.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

This book explores how concerns can be raised about the NHS, why raising concerns hasn't always improved standards, and how a no-fault open culture approach could drive improvements. The book describes a wide range of mechanisms for raising concerns about the NHS, including complaints, the ombudsman, litigation, HSIB, and the major inquiries since 2000, across the various UK jurisdictions. The NHS approach is contextualised within the broader societal developments in dispute resolution, accountability, and regulation. The authors take a holistic view, and outline practical solutions for reforming how the NHS responds to problems. These should improve the situation for those raising concerns and for those working within the NHS, as well as providing cost savings. The no-fault approaches proposed in the book provide long-term sustainable solutions to systemic problems, which are particularly timely given the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the NHS. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers, ADR practitioners, practising lawyers, and policy makers.

H.A.M.J.ten Have著　Covid-19のパンデミックとグローバルな生命倫理
ten Have, Henk A. M. J., The Covid-19 Pandemic and Global Bioethics. (Advancing Global Bioethics 18) 240 pp. 2022:5 (Springer, GW) <677-113>
ISBN 978-3-030-91490-5 hard ¥27,221.- (税込) EUR 109.99 *

This book demonstrates that the COVID 19 pandemic asks for a a global approach to bioethics. it describes how the pandemic affects the experience of being in a world that is intrinsically characterized by global connectivity. It demonstrates that a moral vision is necessary to articulate this experience of connectedness. Subsequently, a perspective of global bioethics is introduced, which provides a broader framework than mainstream bioethics, since it highlights the significance of both vulnerability and solidarity. Through a unique global perspective the book addresses the moral challenges of the pandemic, and places the confrontation with death, disease and disability within a wider framework of ethical concerns. This book is of important in the public debate on infectious diseases, and of relevance to health professionals, global health educators, public health experts,as well as policy makers.