Mason and Mccall Smith's Law and Medical Ethics

by Mason, Kenyon; Laurie, Graeme

• ISBN13: 9780199227754
• ISBN10: 0199227756
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 practiceand 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. The last edition included a new chapter on the European dimension to health care, and this editioncontinues to take a comparative approach, with particular importance attached to the shift in influence from transatlantic jurisdictions to those of the EU. This book has continually evolved to reflect changes in the law and shifting ethical opinions - this eighth edition continues to fulfil this remit and is essential reading for any serious medical law student or practitioner, as well as being of interest to all those involved in the delivery andcontrol of modern healthcare.

Author Biography

Kenyon Mason is Professor (Emeritus) of Forensic Medicine, and Honorary Fellow of the School of Law, at the University of Edinburgh Graeme Laurie is Professor of Medical Jurisprudence and Co-Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the University of Edinburgh

Table of Contents

Frameworks

Medical ethics and medical practice

Public Health and the state/patient relationship

Health rights and obligations in the European Union

Fundamentals

Consent to treatment

Liability for medical injury

Medical confidentiality

Reproductive Medicine

Genetic information and the law

The management of infertility and childlessness

The control of fertility

Civil and criminal liability in reproductive medicine

Medicine in the Community

Health resources and dilemmas in treatment

Treatment of the aged

Mental health and human rights

The body as property

The End of Life

Medical futility

The diagnosis of death

The donation of organs and transplantation

Termination of life

Biomedical Research

Research and experimentation

Research on children, fetuses and embryos

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