Mason and McCall Smith's Law and Medical Ethics / Kenyon Mason, Graeme Laurie

1. Medical ethics and medical practice ; 2. Public Health and the state-patient relationship ; 3. Health rights and obligations in the European Union ; 4. Consent to treatment ; 5. Liability for medical injury ; 6. Medical confidentiality ; 7. Genetic information and the law ; 8. The management of infertility and childlessness ; 9. The control of fertility ; 10. Civil and criminal liability in reproductive medicine ; 11. Health resources and dilemmas in treatment ; 12. Treatment of the aged ; 13. Mental health and human rights ; 14. The body as property ; 15. Medical futility ; 16. The diagnosis of death ; 17. The donation of organs and transplantation ; 18. Euthanasia and assistance in dying ; 19. Biomedical human research and experimentation ; 20. Research on children, fetuses and embryos

This classic textbook has provided students of medical law and ethics with a framework for exploring this fascinating subject for over 25 years. Providing coverage of all of the topics found on medical law courses, it gives an overview of the inter-relationship between ethical medical practice and the law. The authors, both hugely experienced and influential in the field, offer their own opinions on current debates and controversies, and thereby encourage readers to formulate their own views and arguments. As a still-developing discipline, medical law is significantly shaped by the courts, and as such this book provides extensive coverage of recent judicial decisions as well as statutory developments. This edition continues to take a comparative approach, with particular importance attached to the shift in influence from transatlantic jurisdictions to those of the EU.