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Health Law Research Guide

Subjects covered

Regulation of health care practitioners and providers, private financing of health care (managed care, ERISA preemption, health insurance reform), public financing of health care (Medicare/Medicaid), food and drug law (FDA approval, prescription drug labeling, off-label uses)

Print sources

Health Care Law

Health care law and ethics / Mark A. Hall, Mary Anne Bobinski, David Orentlicher
   Imprint: New York : Aspen Publishers, c2007
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Course Reserve
   Call No. XXKF3821.A7C87 2007

Health care law and ethics in a nutshell / by Mark A. Hall, Ira Mark Ellman [and] Daniel S. Strouse.
   Imprint: St. Paul, Minn. : West Pub. Co., 1999.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Reserve
   Call No.: XXKF3821.Z9H35 1999

Health law / by Barry R. Furrow ... [et al.].Imprint: St. Paul, Minn. : West Pub. Co., 2000
   Series: Hornbook series.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: XXKF3821.H43432 2000

Health law / by Barry R. Furrow ... [et al.].
   Imprint: St. Paul, Minn. : West Group, 2000.
   Series: Practitioner treatise series
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Permanent Reserve
   Call No.: XXKF3821.H4342 2000

Health law and policy : a survival guide to medicolegal issues for practitioners / Bryan A. Liang.
   Imprint: Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, c2000.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Reserve
   Call No.: XXKF3821.L53 2000

The law and American health care / Kenneth R. Wing, Michael S. Jacobs, Patricia C. Kuszler.
   Imprint: New York : Aspen Law & Business, c1998.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Reserve
   Call No.: XXKF3825.W55 1998

Governing health : the politics of health policy / Carol S. Weissert and William G. Weissert.
   Imprint: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: RA395.A3 W45 2006

Medicare and medicaid claims and procedures / by Harvey L. McCormick.
   Imprint: Eagan, Minn. : Thomson/West, c2005-, 4th ed.
   Description: 2 v. ; 26 cm.
   Notes:  Kept up to date by pocket parts.
   Location:  D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: XXKF3605.M32 2005

 

Fraud and Medical Malpractice

Health care fraud and abuse : practical perspectives / editor-in-chief, Linda A. Baumann.
   Imprint: Arlington, Va. : Bureau of National Affairs, c2007.
   Subject: Insurance, Health -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Criminal provisions.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: XXKF3605.H43 2007

Medical malpractice and the U.S. health care system / edited by William M. Sage, Rogan Kersh.
   Imprint: Cambridge [England]; New York:Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: XXKF2905.3 .M4393 2006

Drug injury : liability, analysis, and prevention / James T. O'Donnell ; cont. authors, Gopi Doctor Ahuja ... [et al.].
   Imprint: Tucson, AZ. : Lawyers & Judges Pub. Co., c2005.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: XXKF1297.D7 O36 2005

 

Food and Drug Law

Guide to food laws and regulations / Patricia A. Curtis.
   Imprint: Ames, Iowa : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
   Description: xi, 229 p. ; 24 cm.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: XXKF3870 .C87 2005

Pharmaceutical law, 2006 : across the product life cycle / co-chairs, George W. Evans, Daniel E. Troy.
   Imprint: New York, N.Y. : Practising Law Institute, c2006.
   Series: Intellectual property course handbook series ; no. G-878
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: XXKF3885.Z9 P53 2006

Pharmaceutical law : regulation of research, development, and marketing / editor-in-chief, Michael E. Clark.
   Imprint: Arlington, Va : ABA, Health Law Section : BNA Books, c2007.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: XXKF2915.P4P495 2007

The law and ethics of the pharmaceutical industry / by Graham Dukes.
   Imprint: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2006.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: XXK3636 .D853 2006

The power of pills : social, ethical and legal issues in drug development, marketing, and pricing / edited by Jillian Clare Cohen, Patricia Illingworth, and Udo Schüklenk.
   Imprint: London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto, 2006.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: RA401.A1 P69 2006

Negotiating health : intellectual property and access to medicines / edited by Pedro Roffe, Geoff Tansey, and David Vivas-Eugui.
   Imprint: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2006.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: RA395.A3 N44 2006

A practical guide to intellectual property issues in the pharmaceutical industry / by Adrienne M. Blanchard, Kelly Gill and Jane Steinberg.
   Imprint: London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2007.
   Series: European intellectual property review practice series
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: XXK1401.B675 2007

Pharmaceutical patent law / John R. Thomas.
   Imprint: Washington, D.C. : Bureau of National Affairs, c2005-
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: XXKF3133.D78T46 2005

 

Journals

 The listed journals specialize in health care issues and law.  There are articles about these issues in mainstream law journals as well.

American Journal of Law & Medicine
Annals of Health Law
Behavioral Sciences and the Law
DePaul Journal of Health Care Law
   http://www.law.depaul.edu/students/organizations_journals/student_orgs/lawhlj/
Food and Drug Law Journal
Health Care Financing Review
Health Law & Policy
Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine
Houston Journal of Health Law and Policy
Indiana Health Law Review
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy
Journal of Health & Biomedical Law
Journal of Health & Life Sciences Law
Journal of Health Care Law and Policy
Journal of Health Law
Journal of Health, Politics, Policy, and Law
Journal of Law and Health
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Journal of Legal Medicine
Journal of Medicine and Law
Law and Human Behavior
Law and Psychology Review
Medical Law Review
Quinnipiac Health Law Journal
Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics

Databases and Library Electronic Resources

BNA Health Care current awareness newsletters (Law Library webpage > Law Databases > BNA)
Health Care Daily Report
Health Care Fraud Report
Health Care Policy Report
Health Law & Business Library
Health Law Reporter
Health Plan & Provider Report
Life Sciences Law & Industry Report
Medical Devices Law & Industry Report
Medical Research Law & Policy Report
Medicare Report
Pharmaceutical Law & Industry Report
State Health Care Regulatory Developments

Commerce Clearinghouse (CCH)

CCH Health & Human Resources (Law Library webpage > Law Databases > CCH Health & Human Resources)
FDA laws, regulations, legislation, decisions, healthcare compliance materials, laws, regulations, Medicare and Medicaid guides, state health laws and regulations

John Crerar Library's Medical Resources@Crerar webpage on Medicine http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/med/

John Crerar Library's Medical Resources@Crerar webpage on Health Statistics http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/med/healthstat/

Public Policy in Science, Technology, Medicine & Health/John Crerar Library http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/sci/science_policy.html
"This is a selected list of organizations and agencies that contribute to discussion and action on issues of policy in science, technology, medicine and health. Also included are meta-sites that contain links to other resources, online and in print, on these issues. This is not a comprehensive list, but rather a place to begin investigation."

Westlaw All Databases > Topical Materials by Area of Practice > Health & Medicine

LexisNexis Legal > Area of Law - By Topic > Health Care;  Legal > Area of Law - By Topic > Medical;  Legal > Area of Law - By Topic > Medical Malpractice

 

Federal Agencies

 

United States Department of Health and Human Services http://www.hhs.gov/

United States Food and Drug Administration http://www.fda.gov/default.htm

United States Environmental Protection Agency: Human Health page: http://www.epa.gov/ebtpages/humanhealth.html

Center for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the FDA http://www.fda.gov/cder/

Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition: Health Care Issues http://www.ftc.gov/bc/bchealthcare.shtm

National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/

 

Webpages (A to Z)

 

American Bar Association Health Law Section http://www.abanet.org/health/

American Health Lawyers Association http://www.healthlawyers.org/

American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org/

Boston University Pappas Law Library Health Law Portal http://www.bu.edu/lawlibrary/research/portals/health.html

The Centers for Law and the Public Health, A Collaborative at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown University http://www.publichealthlaw.net/

Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute
   Health Law http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Health
   Medicare  http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Medicare
   Medicaid   http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Medicaid

Food and Drug Law http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Food_and_drug_law

FDA Drug Information Pathfinder http://www.fda.gov/CDER/Offices/DDI/pathfinder.htm

Food and Drug Law Institute http://www.fdli.org/

Georgetown University Law Center Health Law Research Guide http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/guides/health.cfm

GlobaLex Research Guide on International Health Law http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/international_health_law.htm

Harvard Law School Health Law Research Guide http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/services/research/guides/united_states/specialized/health/index.php

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society http://www.himss.org/ASP/index.asp

HealthLawProf Blog http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/healthlawprof_blog/

Jurist Health Law http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/sg_healt.htm

PhRMA: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America http://www.phrma.org/

World Health Organization http://www.who.int/en/

 

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