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Jurisprudence

Categorical breakdown of terms falling inder the category of Jurisprudence. Sub categories will become more specific in nature to the terms listed for Jurisprudence.

Sub-Categories

Terms

Advance Directives - Declarations by patients, made in advance of a situation in which they may be incompetent to decide ...

Commitment of Mentally Ill - Legal process required for the institutionalization of a patient with severe mental problems....

Compensation and Redress - Payment, or other means of making amends, for a wrong or injury....

Confidentiality - The privacy of information and its protection against unauthorized disclosure....

Consent Forms - Documents describing a medical treatment or research project, including proposed procedures, risks, ...

Contracts - Agreements between two or more parties, especially those that are written and enforceable by law (Am...

Copyright - The exclusive right, granted by law for a certain number of years, to make and dispose of copies of ...

Defensive Medicine - The alterations of modes of medical practice, induced by the threat of liability, for the principal ...

Duty to Recontact - The ethical and/or legal obligation of a health provider or researcher to communicate with a former ...

Duty to Warn - A health professional's obligation to breach patient CONFIDENTIALITY to warn third parties of the da...

Expert Testimony - Presentation of pertinent data by one with special skill or knowledge representing mastery of a part...

Forensic Psychiatry - Psychiatry in its legal aspects. This includes criminology, penology, commitment of mentally ill, th...

Genetic Privacy - The protection of genetic information about an individual, family, or population group, from unautho...

Informed Consent - Voluntary authorization, by a patient or research subject, with full comprehension of the risks invo...

Insanity Defense - A legal concept that an accused is not criminally responsible if, at the time of committing the act,...

Intellectual Property - Property, such as patents, trademarks, and copyright, that results from creative effort. The Patent ...

Jurisprudence - The science or philosophy of law. Also, the application of the principles of law and justice to heal...

Liability, Legal - Accountability and responsibility to another, enforceable by civil or criminal sanctions....

Living Wills - Written, witnessed declarations in which persons request that if they become disabled beyond reasona...

Malpractice - Failure of a professional person, a physician or lawyer, to render proper services through reprehens...

Mandatory Reporting - A legal requirement that designated types of information acquired by professionals or institutions i...

Mental Competency - The ability to understand the nature and effect of the act in which the individual is engaged. (From...

Parental Consent - Informed consent given by a parent on behalf of a minor or otherwise incompetent child....

Patents as Topic - Exclusive legal rights or privileges applied to inventions, plants, etc....

Physician Impairment - The physician's inability to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to the patient due t...

Presumed Consent - An institutional policy of granting authority to health personnel to perform procedures on patients ...

Professional Impairment - The inability of a health professional to provide proper professional care of patients due to his or...

Resuscitation Orders - Instructions issued by a physician pertaining to the institution, continuation, or withdrawal of lif...

Third-Party Consent - Informed consent given by someone other than the patient or research subject....

Wrongful Life - In civil law a cause of action which alleges that a defendant has wrongfully caused a child to be bo...