Medical Law and Ethics

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Description
Medical Law and Ethics provides coverage of the major topics of medical law and ethics, combining detailed legal exposition and analysis with moral theory and philosophy. It considers the wider contextual pressures facing the law, such as the impact of patient consumerism and the changing perceptions of medicine.
New for the Fifth Edition
•    Supreme Court decisions in doogan v Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health board
     [2014] UKSC 68 and Montgomery v Lanarkhire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11
•    Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015/572
      and Access to Medical Treatments (Innovation) Act 2016
•    EU Clinical Trials Regulation 536/2014 and EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679
Medical Law and Ethics is an ideal textbook for undergraduate law students, those studying at postgraduate level and researchers. The text will also provide a useful supplementary reader to students studying Philosophy, Ethics and Medicine.
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Contents
Chapter 1:    Medical Ethics
Chapter 2:    NHS structure and Resource Allocation
Chapter 3:    Clinical Negligence
Chapter 4:    Consent I: Information, Voluntariness and Public Policy
Chapter 5:    Consent II: Capacity and Mental Health
Chapter 6:    Medical Confidentiality and Data protection
Chapter 7:    Abortion
Chapter 8:    Reproductive Technologies
Chapter 9:    Prenatal Negligence
Chapter 10:  Embryo Research, Embryonic Stem Cells and Cloning
Chapter 11:  Clinical Research
Chapter 12:  Transplantation I: Living and Deceased Donors
Chapter 13:  Transplantation II: Payment, Alternatives and Property
Chapter 14:  End of Life Decisions I: The Law
Chapter 15:  End of Life decisions II: Ethical Controversy
Chapter 16:  A Moral Approach to Medical Law
Bibliography
Index
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Author Details
Shaun D. Pattinson, LL.B., M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S.A
Professor of Medical Law and Ethics, Durham University
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