Title: Law and medical ethics /
Authors: Mason, J. K.; McCall Smith, Alexander,; Laurie, G. T.
Date: 2002
Publisher: LexisNexis Butterworths Tolley ;
Physical description: xlvi, 704 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: K
Contents: Preface -- Table of statutes -- Table of foreign enactments -- List of cases -- The evolution of medical ethics -- A reform of sex law -- The management of infertility and childlessness -- The control of fertility -- Abortion -- Prenatal screening and wrongful life -- The defective neonate -- Medical confidentiality -- Medical negligence -- Consent to treatment -- Health resources and dilemmas in treatment -- Treatment of the aged -- The diagnosis of death -- The donation of organs and transplantation -- Euthanasia -- Biomedical human research and experimentation -- Research on children and fetal experimentation -- Human rights, psychiatry and the law -- Psychiatry and the criminal law -- Appendix A The Hippocratic Oath -- Appendix B Declaration of Geneva -- Appendix C International Code of Medical Ethics -- Appendix D Declaration of Tokyo -- Appendix E Declaration of Oslo -- Appendix F Declaration of Helsinki -- Appendix G Specimen living will -- Index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Medical ethics--Great Britain; Medical ethics.; Medical laws and legislation--Great Britain.; Medical laws and legislation.