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Whether individuals who have lived a "natural life span" have the right to government supported life extending medical services; US.

Major Incident Medical Management and Support (MIMMS) is the coursebook for the Advanced Life Support Group's internationally taught training for health care professionals responding to major incidents. The practical approach employed in MIMMS has proved an invaluable aid to both civilian and military doctors, nurses and paramedics working in disaster management worldwide. The third edition has been fully revised to make MIMMS appropriate for the 21st century, with greater emphasis on human factors, a more structured approach to medical management, and new chapters on:Hazardous materialsIncide

This paper is concerned with the commodification of the risk of death which occurred with the development of life insurance and with the role of the medical examination in making life insurance a viable commodity. Using British and Australian data, it shows how the medical profession and the medical examination were crucial to nineteenth century life insurance institutions in the calculation of the value of human lives. Life insurance institutions combined a developing ideology of health with the knowledge of health statistics and applied both for a developing institutional finance market. The calculation and preservation of the value of individual human lives by the pooling of risks on selected lives is the service which life insurance sells and which underpins finance capital. The knowledge developed from health and morbidity statistics was a process both of social surveillance and of market‐oriented monitoring for economic risk‐reduction. At the level of the individual the necessity for life insurance was the dissolution of traditional community and familial support as industrial capitalism developed.

Using state-level data for the period 1990 through 2007, we estimate the effect of legalizing medical marijuana on suicide rates. Our results suggest that the passage of a medical marijuana law is associated with an almost 5 percent reduction in the total suicide rate, an 11 percent reduction in the suicide rate of 20- through 29-year-old males, and a 9 percent reduction in the suicide rate of 30- through 39-year-old males. Estimates of the relationship between legalization and female suicides are less precise and are sensitive to functional form.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- UK working group -- International reference group -- Contributors to fourth edition -- Contributors to previous editions -- Foreword to fourth edition -- Preface to fourth edition -- Preface to first edition -- Acknowledgements -- Contact details and further information -- How to use your textbook -- Part I Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- 1.1 What is a major incident? -- 1.2 Classification of major incidents -- 1.3 Summary -- CHAPTER 2 The structured approach to major incidents -- 2.1 Preparing for a major incident -- 2.2 The structured response to a major incident -- 2.3 Recovering from a major incident -- 2.4 Summary -- Part II Organisation -- CHAPTER 3 Health service structure and roles -- 3.1 Command and control -- 3.2 Ambulance services organisation -- 3.3 Medical services organisation -- 3.4 Command and control of the health service response -- 3.5 Ambulance services at a major incident -- 3.6 Ambulance service key roles -- 3.7 Medical services at a major incident -- 3.8 Medical command appointments -- 3.9 Clinical staff at the scene -- 3.10 Summary -- CHAPTER 4 Emergency service organisation and roles -- 4.1 Organisation -- 4.2 Role of the police at a major incident -- 4.3 Role of the fire and rescue service at a major incident -- 4.4 Role of the maritime and coastguard services at a major incident -- 4.5 Summary -- CHAPTER 5 Support service organisation and roles -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Specific services -- 5.3 Summary -- Part III Preparation -- CHAPTER 6 Planning -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Guidance -- 6.3 General principles -- 6.4 Incorporating the structured approach into the response -- 6.5 Recovery -- 6.6 Summary -- CHAPTER 7 Personal equipment -- 7.1 Minimum clothing -- 7.2 Additional items -- 7.3 Summary -- CHAPTER 8 Medical equipment -- 8.1 Introduction.