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Reviews (4)

Interesting read...though still a textbook
This review relates to the 4th Edition, which has been fairly significantly updated since the last reviewer's post.No doubt about it, this was written to be a textbook, it's fairly dense and packed with information. Yet it's also a pretty interesting read if your course takes the time to go through it. I also recommend the Mental Health and Disability Nutshell (Hermann) as a supplement - however that has not been updated since '97 and while most of the information is accurate, the text does contain topics the nutshell doesn't discuss.

Law & The Mental Health System - A Review
Good coveage of the caselaw when it was published in 1998, but much has happened in the mental health area of law since then.The clinical studies and theories were hopelessly outdated when the text was published, and are today so dated as to do a disservice to the reader.Until this text is updated, especially in the clincal areas, I cannot recommend it.

no bones about it...
this law book is bone dry, anddelivers exactly the information, and nothing but the information the authors set out to address-- not a pleasure reading book, but a fascinating read and illuminating subsidiary to myclass. ... Read more

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Reviews (4)

Superior Treatise With a Somewhat Cumbersome Writing Style
Overall, this book is excellent.The writer is clearly pro-legalization (as am I), but tries to balance this with an analysis of the opinions and positions of prohibitionists.Husak acknowledges that he cannot truly be objective.
Thinking about the drug war
This book explores the legal, social, economic, and political issues surrounding the banning of certain addictive substances by the government, emphasis on the banning of marijuana, heroin and cocaine by the US government.The author provides a brief history of these substances, how each came to be widely used within the US, and the history of how and why they were banned.The author explains how the legal and criminal justice system evolved to deal with the banning of these substances, and in turn how criminals and criminal organizations evolved to evade law enforcement authorities in the production and distribution of these same substances.The author also shows how prosecuting the drug war has inspired police corruption, invasion of privacy, and creates financial drains on the burses of local, state and federal governments that are much worse than the actual effects of substance abuse.
Truly Awesome and Important Analysis
THIS IS AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT BOOK. Read more

Subjects:  1. American    2. Current Affairs    3. General    4. Health    5. Law    6. Politics / Current Events    7. Ethical issues & debates    8. USA   

Editorial Review

Introduced in 1962, silicone breast implants had been used by between one and two million women by the time they were virtually banned in 1992 by David A. Kessler of the Food and Drug Administration. While the ban came about because manufacturers had failed to demonstrate the safety of the devices, Marcia Angell, executive editor of Read more

Reviews (9)

Science Triumphs
I read this book back in 1996 before the issue of implant safety was settled.I recall the impression it made on me with regard to the widespread ignorance that surrounds us, not only on specific scientific principles but also on the whole idea of the scientific method.This book illustrates why hypotheses and theories can never be evaluated by a court of law.It also illustrates why in any critical review of data one must have a control.If the incidence of a disorder is the same in a group getting implants as it is in a group that does not get implants then it is impossible to reasonably argue that there is any connection between implants and the disorder.Silicone is one of the most inert materials around and people are exposed to it all the time.I strongly recommend this book for anyone looking for further proof that our schools do not teach science adequately.

Medical evidence vs court testimony vs belief
Please note that the more or less average "average ratings" come from reviewers who either rate this one star or four to five stars.In my opinion this illustrates the main point of the book, i.e. that people either evaluate things based on medical evidence, on the opinion of experts, or on their personal belief based on personal life experience/expectations.The different ways of evaluation produce conflicting perceptions, conflicting world views which we see played out many aspect of life.I think that Dr. Angell is gutsy to even take on an issue which generatestremendous controversy.I believe that she presents the arguments for medical evidence very well. Chapter 5 is the best brief and understandable description of what medical evidence is (and is not) that I have ever read.I recommend the book on that alone.I hope that some day Dr. Angell will update the book to include more recent research.

Biases Aplenty
For the true story behind implants, one's time is better spent reading John Byrne's "Informed Consent".He was in charge of Dow's "ethics" program and his wife also had implants.Contrary towhat Dr. Angell writes in her book, there are many studies showingimmunological responses to silicone oils (most recently a study byresearchers at the FDA - June 1999).The Institute of Medicine in theirrecent report termed the FDA study "interesting", choosing torely on previous,and seriously flawed, studies purporting to show no linkbetween silicone and disease (the same studies quoted in Dr. Angell'sbook).One of the studies looked at women who had implants for only onemonth (!), which is as ludicrous as determing smoking doesn't cause cancerafter studying a person who smoked for only a brief time. There arethousands of court documents proving fraud on the part of the implantmanufacturers.Reading through them makes one realize how powerfulcorporations are and how the bottom line is far more important than thehealth and safety of the consumer.Breast implants (saline and silicone)have NEVER been approved for safety by the FDA.They only have pre-marketapproval, which means they can be on the market pending the manufacturerssubmission of safety data.To date, the manufacturers have been UNABLEtoprove implants safe.Unfortunately, the medical community and thecorporate community are oftentimes inextricably intertwined.Money is themotivator.When Dr. Angell speaks of greed, I'm sure that's at least onething she knows a lot about. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Breast implants    3. Complications    4. General    5. Law and legislation    6. Politics / Current Events    7. Products liability    8. Sociology    9. Surgery - Plastic & Cosmetic    10. United States    11. Law as it applies to other professions    12. Medicolegal issues    13. Plastic & reconstructive surgery    14. Public health & safety law    15. USA    16. Women's studies   

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Reviews (4)

Another breath of fresh air
Consider the following scenario: a married couple is told by a government official that they will not be allowed to have sexual intercourse since the woman among them may get pregnant. Sexual reproduction is very hazardous for embryos, fetuses, and gestational mothers they are told, and the statistics supporting the dangers in procreation is presented to them. The couple takes the statistical data to a trained statistician in order to obtain an opinion on the reliability of the data. The statistician informs them that the data is correct, including the statement that up to 75 percent of embryos conceived through sexual intercourse never make it birth. Most of the embryos do not implant in the uterus and are spontaneously aborted. The couple, because of the current legal environment that forbids behavior that leads to these kinds of dangers, is therefore prohibited from procreating using traditional intercourse.
Defense of the Clones
This book is superb. The writing is very clear and the restatement, at convenient intervals, of the points previously established is very useful. It gives a comprehensive, thoughtful and balanced account of the scientific as well as the ethical and legal issues concerning human reproductive cloning.
A Case Study in Arguing Before a Judge and Jury
Prof. Kerry Macintosh of the Santa Clara University Law School, who got her JD from Stanford, provides us with an excellent resource.Her book reads like a scholarly Ph.D. Thesis in addition to being a valuable case study on how to argue persuasively before a judge and jury.She supports her argument that anti reproductive-cloning laws passed in a number of states are unconstitutional and reinforce false stereotypes that stigmatize potential human clones as subhuman or unworthy of existence!Actually, if a clone were born healthy, he/she would really be nothing more than a "temporally displaced identical twin (say, by 40 years)," and twining (both identical and fraternal) is really nothing new in human history, is it?This seeming paradox is related to the "identity fallacy" that assumes that clones are somehow "more" than identical twins (actually they're less, since they had different wombs and maternal mtDNA).Take for example the false logic of the following argument:"It would be unethical to clone King Tut, since the world has changed so much since his day; how could he possibly fit in?"Really, it seems that our evangelical legislators fear that meddling in the "secrets of life," something which is only the proper dominion of God, will unleash unimaginable horrors.
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Subjects:  1. General    2. Human cloning    3. Human reproductive technology    4. Law    5. Law and legislation    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Medical Law & Legislation    8. Research    9. United States    10. Law / Health    11. Medical ethics   

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