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Legal and ethical aspects of healthcare / S.A.M. McLean, J.K. Mason.
LIBRA KD2945 .M35 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McLean, Sheila A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--Law and legislation--Great Britain.
- Medical care.
- Medical ethics--Great Britain.
- Medical ethics.
- Medical care--Law and legislation.
- Great Britain.
- Delivery of Health Care--legislation & jurisprudence.
- United Kingdom.
- Ethics, Clinical.
- Medical Subjects:
- Delivery of Health Care--legislation & jurisprudence.
- United Kingdom.
- Ethics, Clinical.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 252 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; San Francisco : Greenwich Medical Media, 2003.
- Summary:
- There can be few aspects of life which have altered so dramatically in the past few decades as the relationship between medicine and the law. Treatments become more and more sophisticated as each advance in medicine is made. At the same time, the legal and moral issues surrounding such treatments have multiplied and have become increasingly sensitive and complex. Introducing the reader to important topics which include genetics, consent, negligence, research, assisted reproduction and mental health, the book outlines what the current law is, why it is so and what it may become in the future. Legal and Ethical Aspects of Healthcare is written by a lawyer and a doctor, each with extensive practical experience in the field. It provides wide-ranging coverage of the most important ethical and moral issues that face healthcare professionals, lawyers and the general public alike and it offers a unique insight into the problems that healthcare providers and patients can be expected to encounter both today and in the future. All healthcare professionals at any level of training or practice, lawyers and interested members of the general public.
- Contents:
- 1. About Medicine and the Law 1
- 2. Resources
- Who Decides? 15
- 3. The Confidential Relationship 29
- 4. The Therapeutic Partnership 45
- 5. Refusal of Consent 57
- 6. Medical Negligence 71
- 7. Using People for Research 85
- 8. Assisted Reproduction 99
- 9. Genetics and Pregnancy 119
- 10. Termination of Pregnancy 131
- 11. Genetics, Insurance and Employment 147
- 12. Is Life Worth Living? 161
- 13. Disposal of the Body and Body Parts 179
- 14. Sex, Gender and the Law 199
- 15. Mental Health and Mental Capacity 211
- 16. The Law and the Elderly 225.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1841101281
- OCLC:
- 52933403
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