This classic textbook focuses on medical law and its relationship with medical practice and modern ethics. Offering medical as well as legal facts, it provides thorough coverage of all of the topics found on medical law courses, and in depth analysis of recent court decisions, encouraging students to think analytically about the subject. INDICE: 1: Medical ethics and medical practice; 2: Public Health and the state-patient relationship; 3: Health rights and obligations in the EuropeanUnion; 4: Consent to treatment; 5: Liability for medical injury; 6: Medical confidentiality; 7: Genetic information and the law; 8: The management of infertility and childlessness; 9: The control of fertility; 10: Civil and criminal liability in reproductive medicine; 11: Health resources and dilemmas in treatment; 12: Treatment of the aged; 13: Mental health and human rights; 14: The body as property; 15: Medical futility; 16: The diagnosis of death; 17: The donation of organs and transplantation; 18: Euthanasia and assistance in dying; 19: Biomedical human research and experimentation; 20: Research on children, fetuses and embryos
- ISBN: 978-0-19-922775-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 736
- Fecha Publicación: 02/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés