Health law : cases, materials, and problems / by Barry R. Furrow

Includes bibliographical references (pages ix-xi) and index.

Cost, quality, access, and choice -- Quality control regulation : licensing health care professionals -- Quality control regulation of health care institutions -- The professional-patient relationship -- Liability of health care professionals -- Liability of health care institutions -- Health care cost and access : the policy context -- Duties to treat -- Private health insurance and managed care : liability and state and federal regulation -- Public health care financing programs : medicare and medicaid -- Professional relationships in health care enterprises -- The structure of the health care enterprise -- Fraud and abuse -- Antitrust -- Reproduction and birth -- Legal issues in human genetics -- Organ transplantation and the determination of death -- Life and death decisions -- Medically assisted dying -- Regulation of research involving human subjects.