Law and medical ethics
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Law and medical ethics
Butterworths, c1994
4th ed
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Includes index
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Description
This volume offers an analysis of ethical concepts based on positive legal principles and court decisions, describing what actually happens in practice, or where there are no precedents available, what is most likely to happen. Broadly, it deals with the wide range of potentially difficult situations in which the community, as represented by the law, may come into conflict with the medical profession. It provides in-depth analysis of many legal points, together with enhanced footnotes and covers areas of medical law, family law, delict, morality and general ethics. It is suitable for medical practitioners, students of law, medicine and medical ethics, and coroners, nurses and area health authorities.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Introduction: evolution of medical ethics. Part 2 Reproductive medicine: a reform of sex law?
- the management of infertility and childlessness
- the control of fertility
- abortion
- prenatal screening and wrongful life
- neonaticide and selective non-treatment of the newborn. Part 3 Medical practice: medical confidentiality
- medical negligence
- consent to treatment
- health resources and dilemmas in treatment
- treatment of the aged. Part 4 Death: the diagnosis of death
- the donation of organs and transplantation
- euthanasia. Part 5 Research and experimentation: biomedical human research and experimentation
- research on children and fetal experimentation. Part 6 Psychiatry and the law: human rights
- psychiatry and the law
- psychiatry and the criminal law.
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