The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Law

by Cohen, I. Glenn; Hoffman, Allison; Sage, William M.; Sebelius, Kathleen G.

• ISBN13: 9780199366521
• ISBN10: 0199366527
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-12-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Law covers the breadth and depth of health law, with contributions from the most eminent scholars in the field. The Handbook paints with broad thematic strokes the major features of American healthcare law and policy, its recent reforms including the Affordable Care Act, its relationship to medical ethics and constitutional principles, and how it compares to the experience of other countries. It explores the legal framework for the patient experience, from access through treatment, to recourse (if treatment fails), and examines emerging issues involving healthcare information, the changing nature of healthcare regulation, immigration, globalization, aging, and the social determinants of health. This Handbook provides valuable content, accessible to readers new to the subject, as well as to those who write, teach, practice, or make policy in health law.

Author Biography

I. Glenn Cohen is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. He is one of the world's leading experts on the intersection of bioethics (or medical ethics), and the law, as well as health law. Professor Cohen is the author of more than 80 articles and chapters, and his award-winning work has appeared in leading legal law review journals including: Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, and Southern California; medical journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, and JAMA; bioethics journals including the American Journal of Bioethics, the Hastings Center Report; and for public health, the American Journal of Public Health. He is the editor several books including The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues (Oxford, 2013), and the author of Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics (Oxford, 2014).

Allison K. Hoffman is a Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law and a Faculty Associate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. She is an expert on health law and policy and teaches in the areas of health law and policy, torts, and insurance. Her research focuses on some of the most important legal and social issues of our time, including health insurance regulation, the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, retiree healthcare expenses, and long-term care. Her writing has appeared in leading law reviews and health policy journals. She serves as Chair-Elect of the Insurance Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools. Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, she was a fellow at Harvard's Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. She also practiced law at Ropes & Gray, LLP, where she counseled clients on health care regulatory matters, and provided strategic business advice to health care companies as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group.

William M. Sage is James R. Dougherty Chair for Faculty Excellence in the School of Law and Professor of Surgery and Perioperative Care in the Dell Medical School, both at the University of Texas at Austin. He teaches law classes on legislation and regulation, health law, and antitrust, and interdisciplinary classes in professional ethics, health policy, and medical-legal services for vulnerable populations. He has published over 200 articles, essays, and book chapters, and has edited three books. His core areas of expertise are health care reform, delivery system redesign, antitrust and competition policy, medical liability and patient safety, health care quality and information, insurance coverage, and the regulation of health professionals. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (IOM), is an elected fellow of the Hastings Center on bioethics, and serves on the editorial board of Health Affairs. After receiving his medical and law degrees, he completed his internship at Mercy Hospital in San Diego, served as a resident in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins, practiced corporate and securities law at O'Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles and, in 1993, headed four working groups of President Clinton's Task Force on Health Care Reform.