"The Law of Healthcare Administration teaches readers to think through these and other questions of law. Wide-ranging and skillfully written, author Stuart Showalter surveys the pressing issues uncovered during of two centuries of US policy, court decisions, and regulation. Unlike other textbooks on healthcare law, this book emphasizes a practical understanding of legal concepts of interest to students and educators in health administration, public health, nursing, allied health, and related programs. It does so in plain, accessible language, featuring real-life judicial decisions"-- Provided by publisher.

A brief history of law and medicine -- Access to healthcare : rights and responsibilities -- The organization and management of a corporate healthcare institution -- Human resources law -- Contracts and intentional torts -- Negligence -- Liability of the healthcare institution -- Medical staff privileges and peer review -- Health information management -- Emergency care -- Consent for treatment and withholding consent -- Taxation of healthcare institutions -- Competition and Antitrust Law -- Issues of reproduction and birth -- Fraud laws and corporate compliance.