Routledge Handbook of Medical Law and Ethics

ISBN-13: 9780415628181 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 480 str.

Yann Joly;Bartha Maria Knoppers;¬Abar

Opis

This book explores the scope, application and role of medical law, regulatory norms and ethics, and addresses key challenges introduced by contemporary advances in biomedical research and healthcare. While mindful of national developments, the handbook supports a global perspective in its approach to medical law. Contributors include leading scholars in both medical law and ethics, who have developed specially commissioned pieces in order to present a critical overview and analysis of the current state of medical law and ethics. Each chapter offers comprehensive coverage of longstanding and traditional topics in medical law and ethics, and provides dynamic insights into contemporary and emerging issues in this heavily debated field.Topics covered include: Bioethics, health and human rights Medical liability Law and emerging health technologies Public health law Personalized medicine The law and ethics of access to medicines in developing countries Medical research in the genome era Emerging legal and ethical issues in reproductive technologies This advanced level reference work will prove invaluable to legal practitioners, scholars, students and researchers in the disciplines of law, medicine, genetics, dentistry, theology, and medical ethics.

Spis treści

1. Introduction, Vaso Rahimzadeh, Bartha Maria Knoppers, & Yann Joly  Part 1: Rights of Persons  2. Bioethics, Health Law, and Human Rights, George Annas  3. Informed Consent, Trudo Lemmen  4. Privacy and Confidentiality, Mark A. Rothstein  5. Children, Ellen Wright Clayton  6. Disability, Aart Hendriks & Oliver Lewis  7. Mental Health, Gerald B. Robertson  8. End of Life, Chris Gastmans & Herman Nys  Part 2: Professional Relationships  9. Regulating Professional Practice, Ian Freckelton & Belinda Bennett 10. Health Professionals & the Organisation of Healthcare: Current trends,  Nola Ries  11. Healthcare-associated Infections, Lara Khoury  12. Liability and the Legal Duty to Inform in Research, Ma'n Zawati  Part 3: Medical Interventions and Emerging Technologies  13. Emerging Legal and Ethical Issues in Medicine Reproductive Technologies, Vardit Ravitsky & Raphaëlle Dupras-Leduc 14. Regenerative Medicine: Socio-ethical challenges and regulatory approaches, Carla Beak & Rosario Isasi  15. E-Health, Stefaan Callens & Laura Boddez  16. Promotion and Sale of Self-Tests on the Internet, Elke Sleurs , Louiza Kalokairinou, Heidi Carmen Howard & Pascal Borry  Part 4: From Bench to Bedside  17. Medical Research: Future Directions in the Genome Era, Don Chalmers  18. The Ethical and Legal Duties of Physicians in Clinical Genetics and Genomics, Adrian Thorogood & Bartha Maria Knoppers  19. Toward Precision Medicine: The legal and ethical challenges of pharmacogenomics, Gratien Dalpe & Yann Joly  Part 5: Public Health and International Health Trends  20. Public Health: Current and emergent legal and ethical issues in a nutshell, Paula Lobato de Faria & João V. Cordeiro  21. The Role of International Organizations in Promoting Legal Norms, Obijionor Aginam  22. The Law and Ethics of Access to Medicines in Developing Countries, Paul Ogendi & Peter Munyi 23. Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Medicine, Terry S. H. Kaan  24. The Domestication of Stem Cell Tourism, Douglas Sipp

O autorze

Yann Joly is a Lawyer and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University, Canadaas well as a research fellow from the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec and a researcher at the Centre de recherche en droit public at the University of Montreal. Bartha Maria Knoppers holds the Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine. She is Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy, Faculty of Medicine at McGill University, Canada.