Health Law   Tags: affordable care act, bioethics, drugs, erisa, food laws, health, health administration, health care, health informatics, health insurance portability & accountability act, health law, health records, hippa, hmo, hospitals, malpractice, medicaid, medicare  

This guide provides a general overview of health law. It covers locating articles, treatises, statutory law, administrative materials, agency publications, legislative histories and websites of interest. The guide can be used by students, faculty members, lawyers, and the general public.

Please contact any of our UC Law Librarians if you need assistance in finding or using any of the resources in the guide.

Health law concerns the practice and regulation of health care delivery, as well as medical malpractice and bioethics. This guide focuses on general health law resources.  Topics include: treatment relationship, duty to care, informed consent; health care professional licensure, medical liability and malpractice, health care spending, health insurance coverage, health care institutions, and health care business associations.

Due to subscription and licensing agreements, certain library resources are restricted to UC faculty, staff, and currently enrolled students.

If you are a currently enrolled student, UC faculty, or staff member and are trying to access restricted library materials from off campus or otherwise outside the campus network, you must use either the login for off campus access or the UC VPN.

For additional information about UC VPN, please see the Frequently Asked Questions page.