'Overall, I am full of praise for Health Law. It is an agenda-setting work … The work is a tour de force in successfully sustaining a clear and compelling narrative structure, a tightly coherent critical approach, and a strong application of the points of theory to points of regulation and practice … Chapters 1 through 5 provide outstanding foundational materials for courses on health and law anywhere, and should feature on reading lists across our curricula. More generally, the book will serve more innovative programmes in health and law. For undergraduate and postgraduate taught students, I could not recommend it more highly. As indicated, I also would recommend it to researchers in other disciplines, and colleagues outside of academia if they really want to understand what health law is about. Health Law is, quite simply, an excellent textbook.' John Coggon, Centre for Health, Law, and Society, University of Bristol Law School
Introduction; 1. Health law: frameworks and context Anne-Maree Farrell; Part I. Frameworks; Section A. Theories, Perspectives and Ethics in Health: 2. Philosophical bioethics and health law Justin Oakley; 3. Social perspectives on patient-doctor relations Anne-Maree Farrell; 4. Social determinants of health and the role of law Isabel Karpin and Karen O'Connell; 5. Health and human rights law Penelope Weller; Section B. Institutions and Regulation: 6. The regulatory framework for health in Australia John Devereux; 7. Regulating health professionals Gabrielle Wolf; 8. Regulating patient safety and redress Anne-Maree Farrell; Part II. Context; Section A. Patients, Doctors and Health Care: 9. Consent to medical treatment John Devereux; 10. Substituted decision-making Penelope Weller; 11. Medical negligence John Devereux; 12. Confidentiality, privacy and access to information John Devereux; Section B. Law at the Beginning and the End of Life: 13. Regulating reproduction Isabel Karpin; 14. Regulating emerging reproductive technologies Isabel Karpin; 15. Withdrawal and withholding of medical treatment Penelope Weller; 16. Euthanasia and assisted suicide Penelope Weller; Section C. Law and the Human Body: 17. Organ and tissue donation and transplantation Anne-Maree Farrell; 18. Property and human tissue Anne-Maree Farrell; 19. Biobanks Anne-Maree Farrell; 20. Human genetics and the law Isabel Karpin and Karen O'Connell; Section D. Law and Populations: 21. Indigenous health and the law Stephen Gray; 22. Health law and people with disability Isabel Karpin; 23. Mental health law Penelope Weller; 24. Public health law Kate Mulvany; 25. Global health and the law Anne-Maree Farrell.