Text, Cases and Materials on Medical Law. (Record no. 304333)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9781447901235 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic bk.) |
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| Language of cataloging | eng |
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| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 344 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Cherkassky, Lisa. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Text, Cases and Materials on Medical Law. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Pearson Education UK, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2014. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | �2015. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (857 pages) |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Intro -- Contents -- Guided tour -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Table of cases -- Table of statutes -- Table of international legislation -- Table of statutory instruments -- Table of European treaties and conventions -- 1 The ethics of medical law -- Chapter objectives -- SETTING THE SCENE -- Introduction -- Medical ethics and bioethics -- Human rights and religion -- Secular bioethics: what is available? -- Rejection of change -- Chapter summary -- Chapter essay -- Chapter case study -- Further reading -- 2 The allocation of healthcare resources -- Chapter objectives -- SETTING THE SCENE -- Introduction -- The National Health Service -- How can we ration resources? -- The judiciary and healthcare rationing -- Travelling for treatment: Brits and asylum seekers -- Chapter summary -- Chapter essay -- Chapter case study -- Further reading -- 3 Medical negligence -- Chapter objectives -- SETTING THE SCENE -- Introduction -- The criteria for negligence -- Liability for negligence before birth -- Liability for negligence after birth (i.e. general medical negligence) -- Defences to negligence -- Limits to a claim -- The criminal law -- The General Medical Council -- Making a complaint: NHS treatment -- Problems with the medical negligence system -- Looking to the future in medical negligence -- Private care: breach of contract -- Chapter summary -- Chapter essay -- Chapter case study -- Further reading -- 4 Consent -- Chapter objectives -- SETTING THE SCENE -- Introduction -- What is consent? -- The legal consequences of ignoring a competent refusal -- The 'scope' of competence -- Adults: confirming incapacity -- Treating incompetent adults -- Refusing treatment through an advance directive -- The Court of Protection -- Appointing a decision-maker -- Children: incompetent -- Children: competent -- Consenting to risks -- Chapter summary. |
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| Formatted contents note | Chapter essay -- Chapter case study -- Further reading -- 5 Confidentiality -- Chapter objectives -- SETTING THE SCENE -- Introduction -- What is confidentiality and why is it important? -- The statute law on confidentiality -- The common law on confidentiality -- The guidelines on confidentiality -- The Code of Practice for Confidentiality -- Patients who lack capacity -- The rights of deceased patients -- Contractible diseases, anonymity and research -- Remedies for a breach of confidentiality -- Chapter summary -- Chapter essay -- Chapter case study -- Further reading -- 6 Abortion -- Chapter objectives -- SETTING THE SCENE -- Introduction -- What is the morning-after pill? -- What is an abortion? -- The history of abortion -- The law of abortion (development) -- The law of abortion (present): the Abortion Act 1967 -- Problems with section 1 of the 1967 Act -- Barriers to abortion -- Patients who lack capacity -- Fathers and foetuses: legal and moral rights -- Abortion tourism -- Chapter summary -- Chapter essay -- Chapter case study -- Further reading -- 7 Mental Health Law -- Chapter objectives -- SETTING THE SCENE -- Introduction -- The 'autonomy anomaly' in mental health law -- What is a mental disorder? -- Detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 (assessment) -- Detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 (treatment) -- Detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 (emergency and other) -- Mental health and human rights -- Releasing patients from detention and treatment -- Mentally ill patients in the community -- Mentally ill prisoners -- Voluntary admission into the mental health system -- Chapter summary -- Chapter essay -- Chapter case study -- Further reading -- 8 Assisted conception -- Chapter objectives -- SETTING THE SCENE -- Introduction -- The history behind assisted conception -- The law on assisted conception. |
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| Formatted contents note | Who can seek assisted conception? -- Eggs, sperm and embryos -- Who are the legal parents? -- Embryo testing and screening -- Human cloning -- Surrogacy -- Chapter summary -- Chapter essay -- Chapter case study -- Further reading -- 9 Organs -- Chapter objectives -- SETTING THE SCENE -- Introduction -- The history of organ donation and transplantation -- The current law in the United Kingdom -- The organ transplant procedure -- Living donor transplantation -- The definition of death -- The history of the brain stem death test -- The current tests for determining death -- The controversy surrounding brain stem death -- How can we increase the number of donated organs? -- The UK and the organ donor register -- Chapter summary -- Chapter essay -- Chapter case study -- Further reading -- 10 Medical research -- Chapter objectives -- SETTING THE SCENE -- Introduction -- The international ethical codes -- The UK approach to medical research -- What is research? -- Participating in clinical research -- Consent -- Medical research in poor countries -- Publishing the results of medical research -- Compensating research participants -- Stem cells and embryos in medical research -- Chapter summary -- Chapter essay -- Chapter case study -- Further reading -- 11 The end of life -- Chapter objectives -- SETTING THE SCENE -- Introduction -- The legal issues -- Gross negligence manslaughter -- Assisted suicide -- Palliative care -- Refusal of treatment at the end of life -- Incompetent adults at the end of life -- Children at the end of life -- Should euthanasia be legalised? -- The law in other countries -- Death -- Chapter summary -- Chapter essay -- Chapter case study -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Text, Cases and Materials on Medical Law combines detailed commentary and analysis of the law with excerpts from a range of sources, both legal and non-legal, to help set the law in context and deepen your knowledge of this contentious and highly emotive area of law. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Cherkassky, Lisa |
| Title | Text, Cases and Materials on Medical Law |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | : Pearson Education UK,c2014 |
| 797 2# - LOCAL ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME (RLIN) | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
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