Mason and McCall Smith's Law and Medical Ethics / Graeme Laurie, Shawn Harmon, Gerard Porter

1: Medical ethics and medical practice2: Public health and the state-patient relationship3: Health rights and obligations in the European Union4: Consent to treatment5: Liability for medical injury6: Medical confidentiality7: Genetic information and the law8: The management of infertility and childlessness9: The control of fertility10: Civil and criminal liability in reproductive medicine11: Health resources and dilemmas in treatment12: Treatment of the aged13: Mental health and human rights14: The body as property15: Medical futility16: The diagnosis of death17: The donation of organs and transplantation18: Euthanasia and assistance in dying19: Biomedical human research and experimentation20: Research on children, fetuses and embryos

This classic textbook focuses on medical law and its relationship with medical practice and modern ethics. It provides thorough coverage of all of the topics found on medical law courses, and in depth analysis of recent court decisions, encouraging students to think analytically about the subject .