CAPACITY ISSUES FROM A LEGAL STANDPOINT

Morbid Impulses from the Medico-Legal Standpoint

Geriatric issues from the standpoint of human evolution

Mankind is thought to have separated from a common ancestor shared with chimpanzees approximately 7 million years ago. At the time, among our ancestors was a group that decided to come down from the trees to live in the savanna as desertification of Africa’s forests progressed. Although the term “ape-man” was used for early mankind who walked on two feet, improvements in the precision of dating...

Experiments on the Stability of Seminal Stains from a Medico-Legal Standpoint

Medico legal issues.

This chapter gives an educational overview of: * An awareness of the legal issues involved in health informatics * The need for the privacy and security of the patient record * The legal consequences of a breach of the security of the patient record * The concept of privacy law and what precautions ought to be taken to minimize legal liability for a breach of privacy and/or confidentiality.

Informed Consent: Legal Issues

We mentioned previously that legal standards for appropriate informed consent disclosure of information often differ from moral standards. In this section we examine legal standards. Unfortunately or not, there are many different legal systems in the United States. Each state has its own set of laws, and in each judges are bound by different precedents. In the United States, as in countries lik...