Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law

Herausgeber: Griffiths, Danielle; Sanders, Andrew

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Griffiths and Sanders present a fresh and wide-ranging analysis of the impact of the criminal process on medical practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9781107021532
• ISBN-10: 1107021537
• Artikelnr.: 36685931

Inhaltsangabe

1. The 'doctoring type'
2. 'The sleep of death': 150 years of anaesthesia-related mortality and the courts
3. Victims and prosecution policy
4. The road to the dock: prosecution decision-making in medical manslaughter cases
5. Medical manslaughter: the role of context and character
6. Doctors who kill and harm their patients: the Australian experience
7. Medical manslaughter: organisational liability
8. 'From prosecution to rehabilitation': New Zealand's response to health professional negligence
9. The role of the criminal law in healthcare in France: examining the HIV blood contamination scandal
10. Pain relief, prescription drugs, and prosecution in the US
11. Exploring the tension between physician-assisted dying and palliative medicine
12. Psychiatric care and criminal prosecution
13. 'Involuntary automaticity' and medical manslaughter
14. Maternity services and the impact of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
15. Disease transmission and prosecution.