Text, Cases and Materials on Medical Law.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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