Disability

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Speech Before the International Convention on the Medicolegal Aspects of Disability....Pages 3-4
What Is Medical and what Is Legal About Disability?....Pages 5-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
On the Realization of the Rights of Invalids According to the Israeli National Insurance Law....Pages 11-15
Issues of Competence and the Dependent Adults Act....Pages 16-40
Employment Opportunities for the Handicapped in the United States....Pages 41-49
Implementing Legal Mandates Regarding the Disabled in Educational Institutions in the USA....Pages 50-57
Learning Disabilities and the Court....Pages 58-62
Judicial Self-awareness and Psychoanalytic Countertransference....Pages 63-69
The Disabled Person as a Witness in Court....Pages 70-74
Economic Constraints on the Effectiveness of Litigation and Legislation for the Disabled....Pages 75-83
Assessment of Disability....Pages 84-105
Chronic Pain in the Medicolegal Aspects of Workers’ Compensation Cases....Pages 106-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Psychosocial Aspects of Disability....Pages 115-124
Psychosocial Factors in Successful Rehabilitation....Pages 125-127
Liability for Medical Malpractice in German Law....Pages 128-140
The Family and the Invalid: Who Needs Whom?....Pages 141-146
Self-concept of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients....Pages 147-158
Definitions of Rehabilitation in Legislation....Pages 159-180
Medicolegal Considerations in the Care of Severely Disabled Newborn in Canada....Pages 181-186
Rehabilitation of Heroin Addicts with Methadone Maintenance: A Five-Year Clinical Experience....Pages 187-190
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Rehabilitation of Traumatic Brain-injured Patients....Pages 191-192
Prostheses for Disabled Elderly Amputees....Pages 193-197
The Effect of Legal Settlement on Work Disability Following Compensable Injury....Pages 198-205
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Medicolegal Criteria for Post-traumatic Psycho Syndrome....Pages 209-214
Informed Consent by Mentally Disabled Persons....Pages 215-221
Confidentiality: The Moral/Legal/Treatment Conflict....Pages 222-229
Disability, Medical Intervention, and Individual Freedom....Pages 230-237
Medicolegal Aspects of Sterilization for Mentally Disabled Persons....Pages 238-243
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
The Eighties: Decade of Handicapped People....Pages 247-251
Back Matter....Pages 252-256