Left: Professor Erin Nelson
Right: Canadian Health Law and Policy, Fifth Edition
Robots and artificial intelligence. Pharmaceutical regulation. Social determinants and marginalized populations. These and other topics get their due in the latest edition of Canadian Health Law and Policy, co-edited for the first time by UAlberta Law Professor Erin Nelson together with Profs. Joanna Erdman (Dalhousie) and Vanessa Gruben (Ottawa).
The fast pace of change in the exciting world of health law means that this influential volume of Canadian health policy scholarship has required regular updating since its inaugural imprint in 1999. But while the fifth edition does indeed cover new ground, co-editor Nelson asserts that the main difference between this and previous versions of the book lies in its organization.
"We decided to go with shorter chapters this time around," she said.
"By increasing the number of chapters but shortening each one we hoped to produce a more user-friendly book for teachers, enabling them to pair the chapters with other sources for use in teaching."
The organization isn't the only aspect of the book geared specifically for health law instructors. One of the chapters focuses specifically on the study and teaching of health law. Nelson, for her part, contributes a chapter on the subject of legal ownership as it relates to human body parts, while fellow UAlberta Professor Ubaka Ogbogu contributes one entitled 'Genetics and the Law'.
Canadian Health Law and Policy,5th Edition is available for order on the LexisNexis Canada website.