Medical law and ethics
By: Jonathan Herring.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 657
ISBN-13: 9780199230662
Subjects: Medical laws and legislation; Medical ethics; Medical laws and legislation -- Great Britain; Medical ethics -- Great Britain
Description: "Medical Law and Ethics not only provides coverage of all the important cases, statutes, and legal principles in this fascinating area of the law, but also looks at different ethical viewpoints, including feminist, religious, critical, and sociological. Readers are therefore given a firm grounding in the legal principles of medical law, whilst also being encouraged to understand and think about the tensions and debates within its wider social context." "In this second edition, boxed features place more emphasis on EU angles, and further information on 'hot topics' such as medical genetics and prenatal intelligence, PGD (preimplantation genetic diagnosis) and tissue typing is provided. Detailed and analytical enough for both undergraduate and postgraduate law students, and clear enough to be used by students approaching the subject from a non-legal background, this book gives a user-friendly and thorough introduction to medical law and ethics."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ethics and medical law; title: The structure of the nhs and the rationing of health care resources; title: Medical negligence; title: Consent to treatment; title: Confidentiality; title: Contraception, abortion, and pregnancy; title: Reproduction; title: Organ donation and the ownership of body parts; title: Dying and death; title: Mental health law; title: Research.