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Medicine, patients and the law.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brazier, Margaret, author.
- Cave, Emma, 1974- author.
- Heywood, Rob (Robert James), author.
- Series:
- Contemporary issues in bioethics, law and medical humanities.
- Contemporary issues in bioethics, law and medical humanities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical laws and legislation--England.
- Medical laws and legislation.
- Medical laws and legislation--Wales.
- Medical ethics--England.
- Medical ethics.
- Medical ethics--Wales.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (lx, 634 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- Seventh edition / Margaret Brazier, Emma Cave and Rob Heywood.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Margaret Brazier is Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester.
- Emma Cave is Professor of Healthcare Law at Durham University.
- Rob Heywood is Professor of Medical Law at the University of East Anglia.
- Summary:
- 'Medicine, Patients and the Law' examines the regulation of medical practice, the rights and duties of patients and their medical advisers, the provision of compensation for medical mishaps and the framework of rules governing medicine and morals.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Medicine, law and society
- 1. Law and medicine: lessons from yesterday
- 2. The practice of medicine today
- 3. Doctors’ responsibilities: patient’s rights
- 4. Medicine, moral dilemmas and the Law
- 5. A relationship of trust and confidence
- Part II. Medical malpractice
- 6. Agreeing to treatment
- 7. Competence, consent and compulsion
- 8. Clinical negligence
- 9. Medical litigation
- 10. The criminal process and medical malpractice
- 11. Complaints and redress
- 12. Medical products liability
- Part III. Matters of life and death
- 13. Pregnancy
- 14. Abortion
- 15. Embryo research
- 16. Developments in assisted conception
- 17. Doctors and children
- 18. Healthcare research
- 19. Defining death
- 20. Organ and tissue transplantation
- 21. The human body and its parts
- 22. End of life
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Previous edition: published as by Margaret Brazier and Emma Cave. 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-5261-5715-2
- 1-5261-5718-7
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