Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Cases    3. Law    4. Law and legislation    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Medical Law & Legislation    7. Medical laws and legislation    8. Medicine    9. Research    10. Science and law    11. United States   

Subjects:  1. Evidence, Expert    2. Forensic Science    3. General    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Life Sciences - General    6. Science    7. Science/Mathematics    8. United States    9. Witnesses    10. Law / Criminal Law    11. Medicolegal issues   

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Personnel    2. Allied Health Services - General    3. Civil Procedure    4. Consumer Health    5. Legal Education    6. Legal status, laws, etc    7. Legal status, laws, etc.    8. Malpractice    9. Medical    10. Medical personnel    11. Public Health Law    12. United States    13. Personal & public health   

Subjects:  1. Forensic Science    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Mental Health    4. Psychiatry - General    5. Psychology    6. Statistics    7. Medicolegal issues    8. Psychiatry   

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Hawkins offers practical wisdom with candor and compassion
Nothing is as heartbreaking as hearing your spouse say, "I don't love you anymore."
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Subjects:  1. Christianity    2. Christianity - Christian Life - Divorce    3. Divorce & Separation    4. Family & Relationships    5. Family/Marriage    6. Marriage    7. Psychological aspects    8. Religion - Divorce    9. Religious aspects    10. Separation (Law)    11. Family & Relationships / Marriage   

Subjects:  1. Ethics    2. Ethics & Professional Responsibility    3. Informed consent (Medical law)    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Medical    6. Medical Ethics    7. Medical Law & Legislation    8. Physician and patient    9. Public Health Law    10. United States    11. Medical / Ethics    12. Medicine | Ethics    13. Medicolegal issues    14. USA   

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Well written and a great source of information!
The layout and format of each chapter is outstanding. The author writes so well that the subject matter flows with excellent examples and additional research material at the end of each chapter. Should be used in every nursing school in the country... this is important stuff. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Ethics    2. General    3. Law and legislation    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Nursing    7. Nursing - General    8. Nursing - Issues    9. Nursing Ethics    10. Public Health Law    11. United States    12. Medical / Nursing / Issues    13. Medicolegal issues    14. USA    15. Legal   

Subjects:  1. Clinical Psychology (Specific Aspects)    2. Decision making    3. Ethics    4. General    5. Informed consent (Medical law)    6. Intelligence tests    7. Medical    8. Medical / Nursing    9. Medical Law & Legislation    10. Patient participation    11. Physician & Patient    12. Sociology Of Medicine    13. Therapeutics    14. Law as it applies to other professions    15. Medical / Ethics    16. Medical ethics    17. Medicine | Ethics   

Subjects:  1. Briefs    2. Child Advocacy    3. Law    4. Legal composition    5. Moot courts    6. United States    7. Family law   

Editorial Review

Despite its irreverent title, I actually wish I had this handy how-to when I got divorced a few years back.Combining humor with understanding, this book dispenses wise advice on how to survive a potentially devastating time ... Read more

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A Must-Read.....
This book is a must-read for anyone who has read and successfully applied, "How to Date a White Woman: A Practical Guide for Asian Men". The tips in here can be applied to dumping girlfriends and brides alike, and are essential to recovering mental health!

Ms. Covington covers a lot
Yes a woman named Lee wrote this book.She was on the radio talking about it.I had thought it was a man.My ignorance.I am the first to admit that divorce is horrible but sometimes necessary.Ask any loving man that has a self absorbed wife.Men get the short end of the stick in divorce and this is the one book you will find that addresses how you can get out with more than just the shirt on your back which she (and I mean her lawyer not her) will still try to get.The main thing is planning.If you plan ahead you will make divorce as painless for you as possible.If you are a woman reading this and think god how could someone write about this, take a look at the number of books written on the reverse side that show how to squeeze a man until he cries like a choir boy.Ms. Covington does say that you may have to pay and in some cases you should pay but the lawyers are the ones that will pressure your dear wife to nail you for everything.

Yess! You gonna need this book.
Get the book before your wife had put her hands on it all. You gonna need all advice you can get. You may save on a lawyer as well by reading it ahead! And on the doctor too.. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Divorce & Separation    2. Family & Relationships    3. Family & Relationships / Divorce    4. Family/Marriage    5. General    6. Psychology    7. Specific Groups - General    8. Biography / Autobiography    9. Child custody    10. Custody of children    11. Divorced fathers    12. Fathers    13. Law    14. Legal status, laws, etc.    15. Separation & divorce    16. Specific Groups    17. United States   

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Superb!
If you're looking for a book that explains in simple terms many forensic issues relevant to a forensic or physician's practice, this is it. Yes, this is comprehensive yet very easy and enjoyable to read. The authors' expertise and savvy are evident in every page. Highly recommended!

New third edition just out!
This out-of-print book has been replaced by the hot-off-the-presses, completely updated NEW THIRD EDITION from Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.Bristling with managed-care driven risk management advice, andaddressing recovered memory, new technology and information security in theeletroinic age, this is still the book to keep you and your practice safe! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Civil Procedure    2. Law    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession    4. Medical Law & Legislation    5. Psychiatry - General    6. Law as it applies to other professions    7. Psychiatry    8. Torts / delicts    9. USA    10. Forensic Psychiatry   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Child custody    3. Custody of children    4. Family Law - Children    5. Family/Marriage    6. Law    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Popular works    9. Reference    10. United States    11. Advice on parenting    12. Family & Relationships / Reference   

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What every family judge, attorney, and parent should read
The author, who happens to be a judge, writes from the unique point of view of the child's interest -- not the mother's, father's, attorney's or GAL's (the latter two who usually run the show in family court). While it's well-known that most divorces are won by whoever has the most money and the best-connected lawyer (still, about money and paybacks to courts and judges - yes, it's a fact!) -- it's wonderful to discover that there are still a few wise people out there who care about the children involved. Mason's book demysifies The Custody Wars brilliantly.
The thesis of Berkeley Law Professor Mary Ann Mason's highly readable and powerfully argued The Custody Wars is that the U.S. legal system fails to provide adequate representation and concern for the interests of childrenin custody disputes.Judiciously articulated irony abounds, as when Masonexposes the court system's vulnerability to the cynically utilizedself-interest of many middle/upper class fathers and mothers for whomparenting is on the back burner.On the other hand, it is equally ironicthat parents of both genders who practice self-sacrificism (not healthy,involved parenting) are sometimes the most childishly selfish in insistingupon their entitlement, regardless of the child's feelings.We learn ofchildren whose lives are ridiculously fragmented and enervated by jointcustody shuttlings, and yet we also hear of children who have benefitedfrom the arrangement, thanks in large measure to the parents' maturity. As evidenced by the specificity and nuanced analysis in her case studies,Mason's scrupulous fairness and flexibility in offering parameters ofjudgment about custodial fitness are rooted in compassion for the child'swell-being.She simultaneously seeks reasonably objective standards whilerealizing how difficult they are to determine, especially on ideologicalbattlefields.Hers is wisdom unavailable to radical relativists or thetheologically impaired. To note only two of many fine examples of her clearthinking about how the court system can be changed to make custodydecisions more child-centered, Mason proposes that judges be educated inchild development and that reviews of custody arrangements be mandated whenthe child is 7 and 12.Professor Mason has much of interest forvarious potential readerships.There are chapters on the unwed father,stepparents, domestic violence, gay and lesbian parents, and "testtube troubles."Mason's argument merits serious attention from abroad spectrum of policy-makers, academics, and warring couples andex-couples.In fact, as a friend of mine, a single mother faced withabsurd demands from a father with an abysmal track record, declared,"This book should be required reading for every couple consideringmarriage or children." ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Child Advocacy    2. Child support    3. Children's rights    4. Conflict Resolution    5. Custody of children    6. Divorce & Separation    7. Family & Relationships    8. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    9. Family/Marriage    10. Law and legislation    11. United States    12. English law: family law    13. Family law    14. USA   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Health    3. Law    4. Law and legislation    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Medical Law & Legislation    7. Medical Records    8. United States    9. legislation & jurisprudence   

Subjects:  1. Ethics    2. Ethics & Moral Philosophy    3. Medical Law & Legislation    4. Philosophy    5. Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Domestic Relations Law    3. Family & Relationships    4. Family Law - General    5. Family/Marriage    6. Law    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Parenting - Grandparenting    9. Reference    10. Reference And Information Services    11. Law / Domestic Relations / General   

Editorial Review

Kindergartners with AIDS in Romania. Homeless children living in the tombs of Cairo and the sewers of Mexico City. Teenage prostitutes in Bangkok. Kids enslaved in Indian factories. Kids with guns on the mean streets of Northern Ireland. No question about it, the stark black and white images in Stan Grossfeld's book are gut wrenching--perhaps none more so than the child of the Gaza Strip holding her glass eye, its empty socket staring back at you. Yet this powerful and provocative book about the plight of millions of young people is as difficult to put down as it is to look at. At that, it could well set new standards in photojournalism. ... Read more

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Heartwrenching -- Superb
I have owned this book for a few years and turn to it again and again.It is filled with photos in black and white of children from various parts of the world who are on their last legs.For me the most touching image is opposite a foreward from Mother Teresa.It is a picture of an Ethiopian mother and a beautiful child waiting for food in a refugee camp.The child is skin and bones.The love between the mother and child goes straight to the heart.The caption explains that the child died later that day.In her foreward, Mother Teresa says that the "children in these pictures speak to us."Indeed they do.

a book of questions
Every child in these pictures asks questions.Why don't I have a home?Why do I live in a car?In this camp?Why is my mother crying?Why is everything broken?Why is the refrigerator empty?Why do I need help breathing?Why is the air so bad?Why did I die before I could grow up?Why am I in a coffin?Why are there so many coffins?Why must I be a prostitute?Who are these people who come to me?Who keeps the money?Who eats the vegetables I pick?Why do the chemicals make me sick?Who makes the money?Why is the only place I have to live in this sewer?Why do they rape me?Why do people think I'm bad because I sniff glue?Why do I have to work instead of going to school?Why did the soldiers try to kill me?Will my mother still love me even though I lost a hand?An eye?Why do I feel so good when I have this gun?Who paid for the gun?Who will I kill?Why ....? Enlightening and demanding of social action.
I must first begin with admitting that I have not read this book, yet Istill believe that my thoughts are applicable.Over the summer of 1998 Iwas introduced to Mr. Grossfelds work in the form of a lecture/slide show. He revieled much of the content of the book and explained his views on thesubjects at hand.After the show by instict all I could do was sit aloneand question my life, my social awareness and action, and appreciate what awonderful life I was born into.Read more

Subjects:  1. Abused children    2. Child Advocacy    3. Child prostitution    4. Photo Techniques    5. Photography    6. Photojournalism    7. Pictorial works    8. Poor children    9. Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare    10. Sociology    11. Sociology Of Children    12. Street children    13. Child welfare    14. Photographs: collections   

Subjects:  1. Law and legislation    2. Malpractice    3. Maternity nursing    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Medical Law & Legislation    7. Medical Malpractice    8. Nurses    9. Nursing - Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health    10. Obstetric Nursing    11. Practical Guides    12. United States    13. Women's Health - General    14. nurses' instruction    15. Midwifery    16. Neonatal medicine    17. Paediatric nursing   

Subjects:  1. Ethics    2. History    3. Informed consent (Medical law)    4. Law    5. Legal History    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Legal System    8. Medical    9. Medical Ethics    10. Medical Law & Legislation    11. United States    12. Courts & procedure    13. Medical / Ethics    14. Medicine | Ethics    15. USA   

Subjects:  1. Family Law - General    2. Law