The Medicolegal Library is the first and only series of its kind. Its importance is self-evident. During the last decade, science, especial ly medical practice, has become an increasingly complex undertak ing. Recent dramatic developments in medicine have given rise to both theoretical controversies and practical dilemmas. Society is struggling with new scientific, economic, cultural, and legal issues. The establishment of a series such as this appears vital for lawyers and physicians, for sociologists and psychologists, and for the pub lic at large. The editorial board of the Medicolegal Library consists of dis tinguished scientists from many different countries and disciplines. Judge Amnon Carmi acts as principal series editor. Judge Carmi is the author of many books and articles on medical law, and is Editor in-Chief of Medicine and Law: An International Journal. The Medicolegal Library will issue two books each year. The first four books, soon to be published, will deal with child abuse, euthanasia, disability, and nursing, laws and ethics.

I. Introduction

Speech Before the International Convention on the Medicolegal Aspects of Disability
What Is Medical and what Is Legal About Disability?
II. Disability and Law
On the Realization of the Rights of Invalids According to the Israeli National Insurance Law
Issues of Competence and the Dependent Adults Act
Employment Opportunities for the Handicapped in the United States
Implementing Legal Mandates Regarding the Disabled in Educational Institutions in the USA
Learning Disabilities and the Court
Judicial Self-awareness and Psychoanalytic Countertransference
The Disabled Person as a Witness in Court
Economic Constraints on the Effectiveness of Litigation and Legislation for the Disabled
Assessment of Disability
Chronic Pain in the Medicolegal Aspects of Workers' Compensation Cases
III. Disability and Medicine
Psychosocial Aspects of Disability
Psychosocial Factors in Successful Rehabilitation
Liability of Medical Malpractice in German Law
The Family and the Invalid: Who Needs Whom?
Self-concept of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Definitions of Rehabilitation in Legislation
Medicolegal Considerations in the Care of Severely Disabled Newborn in Canada
Rehabilitation of Heroin Addicts with Methadone Maintenance: A Five-Year Clinical Experience
Rehabilitation of Traumatic Brain-injured Patients
Prostheses for Disabled Elderly Amputees
The Effect of Legal Settlement on Work Disability Following Compensable Injury
IV. Medicolegal Aspects
Medicolegal Criteria for Post-traumatic Psycho Syndrome
Informed Consent by Mentally Disabled Persons
Confidentiality: The Moral/Legal/Treatment Conflict
Disability, Medical Intervention, and Individual Freedom
Medicolegal Aspects of Sterilization for Mentally DisabledPersons
V. Epilogue
The Eighties: Decade of Handicapped People.