Margaret Brazier, Emma Cave

Medicine, Patients and the Law

Sixth Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This fully revised and update edition provides an incisive survey of the legal situation in areas as diverse as fertility treatment, patient consent, assisted dying, malpractice and medical privacy. -- .

Produktdetails

• Contemporary Issues in Bioethics
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• 6 ed
• Seitenzahl: 680
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 132mm x 197mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• ISBN-13: 9781784991364
• ISBN-10: 1784991368
• Artikelnr.: 45467877

Autorenporträt

Margaret Brazier is Professor in the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy in the School of Law at the University of Manchester Emma Cave is a Reader in Law at Durham Law School at the University of Durham

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I Medicine, law and society 1 The practice of medicine
today 2 Doctors' responsibilities: patient's rights 3 Medicine, moral
dilemmas and the law 4 A relationship of trust and confidence Part II:
Medical malpractice 5 Agreeing to treatment 6 Capacity, consent and
compulsion 7 Clinical negligence 8 Medical litigation 9 Complaints and
redress 10 Medical products liability Part III: Matters of life and death
11 Pregnancy 12 Assisted conception 13 Abortion and embryo research 14
Doctors and children 15 Healthcare research 16 Defining death 17 Organ &
tissue transplantation 18 Human body and parts 19 End of life Index