基本説明
Fully updated to cover major statutory changes including the Human Tissue Act 2004, the Mental Capacity Act 2005, the NHS Act 2006, the Mental Health Act 2007 and developments in the case law.
Full Description
Principles of Medical Law is the leading practitioner text in medical law. Now in its third edition, it provides a comprehensive and scholarly account of the common law and statutory provisions governing care provision in England and Wales. The contributors include many of the leading academics and practitioners working in the area of medical law today. The book provides an authoritative and up-to-date account of medical law whilst also seeking to set the law in context and critique its application. This new edition will include greater consideration of related health care ethics and human rights issues where appropriate. The book includes major statutory and common law changes including the Human Tissue Act 2008.
Contents
PART 1. ; 1. The organisation of health care ; 2. Regulating health care professions ; PART 2. ; 3. Duties in contract and tort ; 4. Breach of duty ; 5. Actions arising from birth ; 6. Causation and defences ; 7. Institutional liability ; PART 3. ; 8. Consent to treatment: the competent patient ; 9. The test for capacity ; 10. Consent to treatment: patients lacking capacity and children ; 11. Mental health law ; 12. Confidentiality and data protection ; 13. Clinical research ; PART 4. ; 14. Medically assisted reproduction ; 15. Reproductive genetics ; 16. Abortion ; PART 5. ; 17. The regulation of medicinal products and medical devices ; 18. Products liability ; PART 6. ; 19. The legal regulation of the use of human material ; 20. Patenting and the human body ; PART 7. ; 21. Ending life ; 22. Death
