Contemporary issues in healthcare law and ethics
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Contemporary issues in healthcare law and ethics
Elsevier, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This book is designed to tap into professional, public and media interest in the dilemmas of healthcare ethics and to provide a useful tool for healthcare professionals to consider some of the most current issues in detail including: the social creation of health law and healthcare; access to healthcare and control of its quality (including the prevention of health crime as well as civil control); genetics and disability at the beginning of life; vaccination and medical research during life; and, euthanasia at the end of life and the exercise, control and use of body parts after life. Many of the pieces have a sociological and/or empirical as well as ethical bent.
Table of Contents
Contributors List of Cases List of Statutes Introduction Section 1 - Regulating Healthcare 1. The Social Creation of Health Law and Health in the United States 2. Does it Pay to be NICE? Resolving the 'Legitimacy Problem' in the Allocation of Healthcare Resources 3. The Ownership of Clinical Risk in Acute Hospitals in England - An Historical Perspective 4. Does the Bolam Principle Still Reign in Medical Negligence Cases in Malaysia? 5. Medico-crime in the UK: An Introduction Section 2 - Reproductive Technologies 6. New Reproductive Technologies - Discourse and Dilemma 7. Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis - Towards a Principled Construction of Law? Section 3 - Bodies and Body Parts 8. Human Bodies, Inhuman Uses: Public Relations and Legislative Responses to the Scandals of Body Snatching 9. Nemo Censetur Ignorare Legem? Presumed Consent to Organ Donation in France, from Parliament to Hospitals Section 4 - Questionable Interventions During Life 10. The Proper Limits for Medical Intervention that Harms the Therapeutic Interests of Incompetents 11. Infant Vaccination: A Conflict of Ethical Imperatives? 12. Cyberwoman and Her Surgeon in the Twenty-First Century Section 5 - The End of Life 13. Legal Recognition of the Right to Die 14. Regulating Active Voluntary Euthanasia: What can England and Wales Learn From Belgium and the Netherlands?
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