Aimed at obstetricians and gynaecologists, this text stresses the avoidance of maternal-poetal trauma and offers a prospective form of management based on medico-legal principles. It includes legal and ethical issues relating to specific procedures and their consequences. In each chapter, the authors review a subject from both a clinical and practical perspective; while the legal editor subsequently comments on the subject from an attorney's point of view, emphasizing areas of major legal concern and outlining potential liabilities of practice. The text is organized following the chronology of normal pregnancy, ie antepartum issues, intrapartum complications and finally postpartum issues.

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This is the first book to look at the European Union and single currency from the perspective of member states. It offers a systematic critique of the project from the viewpoint of labour and employment. Written by political economists, a historian and lawyer, an economic journalist and a trade-union leader for both an academic and general audience, it is interdisciplinary and synthetic in approach. In seeking to explain the crisis that has beset Europe as a result of Economic and Monetary Union, it is likely to become the standard alternative text to the conventional wisdom on European integration.

Product Description: This beautifully-illustrated reference guides the reader step-by-step through the complete spectrum of obstetrical surgical procedures from cesarean section and tubal ligation to cesarean hysterectomy and intrauterine fetal surgery...read more