Australian health law
By: Sonia Allan, Meredith Blake
Publisher: LexisNexis Butterworths
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Chatswood, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 743
ISBN-13: 9780409348491; 9780409348507
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Medical laws and legislation; Medical care; Law and legislation; Medical ethics; Medical Legislation; Jurisprudence
Description: "[This book provides] analysis of Australian health law as it relates to individual and public health matters. It offers an...examination of health law at local, state and national levels, while also reflecting upon broader global considerations. The...coverage includes discussion of the underpinning influences and principles relevant to health law, the law regulating Australia's health care system, health care practitioner regulation, key legal principles relevant to the patient-practitioner relationship, and health law in the context of the beginning of life, throughout the life course, and ending of life."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface -- Introduction; title: Ethics for health care --; title: Health law and human rights --; title: The Australian health system --; title: The regulation of health care practitioners --; title: Consent to health care treatment --; title: Harm arising from health care treatment : negligence --; title: Duties and rights associated with health care information --; title: Pre-conception, conception and birth --; title: Assisted reproduction --; title: Public health law --; title: Mental health law --; title: Organ, tissue and blood donation --; title: Research involving human participants and materials --; title: The ending of life : adults --; title: The ending of life 2 : minors ---- Conclusion.