Textbook on Medical Law

ISBN-13: 9781854318428 / Angielski

Michael Davies

Opis

Medical law, like no other subject, confronts some of the most taxing questions for law - literally life and death issues. The law has to consider questions such as the ending of life support for the patient in an irreversible coma, the selective reduction of a multiple pregnancy, the transplantation of organs from other species or allowing the handicapped new-born to die. These issues are as much about ethics, morals and human rights as the application of the law.

Spis treści

The Nature of Medical Law; Confidentiality and Access to Medical Information; Medical Negligence; Ethical and Legal Basis of Consent; Informed Consent to Treatment; Wrongful Birth, Conception and Life; Mental Health and the Law; Embryo Research; Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Reproduction; Abortion and the Law; Sterilisation and the Mentally Handicapped; Neonaticide; Euthanasia; Death and Transplantation.

O autorze

Michael Davies is Lecturer in Law at the University of Leicester, where he specialises in medical law, the law of tort and criminal law. He also acts as legal consultant in medical negligence and personal injury litigation.