基本説明
An analysis of ethical concepts based on positive legal principles and court decisions.
Full Description
This new edition of "Law and Medical Ethics" continues to chart the ever-widening field that the topics cover. The interplay between the health caring professions and the public during the period intervening since the last edition has, perhaps, been mainly dominated by wide-ranging changes in the administration of the National Health Service and of the professions themselves but these have been paralleled by important developments in medical jurisprudence.
Contents
INTRODUCTION; 1. Introduction; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; 2. Aspects of sex law; 3. The mangement of infertility and childlessness; 4. The control of fertility; 5. Abortion; 6. Prenatal screening and wrongful life; 7. Genetic information and the law; MEDICAL PRACTICE; 8. Medical confidentiality; 9. Medical negligence; 10. Consent to treatment; 11. Health resources and dilemmas in treatment; 12. Treatment of the aged; DEATH; 13. The diagnosis of death; 14. The donation of organs and transplantation; 15. The body as property; 16. Medical futility (or non-productive medical treatment): I The beginning of life; 17. Medical futility: II Later life; 18. Euthanasia; RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION; 19. Biomedical human research and experimentation; 20. Research on children, fetuses and embryos; PSYCHIATRY AND THE LAW; 21. Human Rights, psychiatry and the law; 22. Psychiatry and the criminal law; INDEX
