Problems in Health Care Law, Ninth Edition has been extensively updated and restructured to utilize the "problems" approach. The text highlights general principles and emphasizes areas that remain most problematic. This classic book deliberately seeks to state expressly the general principles - both of the underlying conflicting public policies and the legal solutions to those problems. This edition has been restructured into a format that emphasizes the problems of health care law by heading sections with a question. Problems in Health Care Law, Ninth Edition continues to provide the helpful one-volume overview of health care law that it and its predecessor Problems in Hospital Law have provided since 1968.

Introduction to the American legal system -- Organization of the health care delivery system -- Creation and maintenance of physical resources -- Individual providers and caregivers -- Medical staff -- Relationship of patient and provider -- Decision-making concerning individuals -- Health care information -- Paying for health care resources and services -- Third-party health care coverage -- Civil liability -- Criminal law and civil penalties -- Antitrust -- Reproductive issues -- Death and dead bodies.