TY - BOOK AU - Grubb,Andrew AU - Grubb,Andrew AU - Laing,Judith M. AU - McHale,Jean V. TI - Principles of medical law SN - 9780199544400 (hbk.) : AV - KD3395 U1 - 344.41041 GRU PY - 2010/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Medical laws and legislation KW - Great Britain KW - Law KW - ukslc KW - Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law KW - thema KW - Mental health law KW - Public health & safety law KW - Medical & healthcare law N1 - Previous ed.: 2004; Includes bibliographical references and index; PART 1.THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; 1. The organisation of health care; 2. Regulating health care professionals; PART 2. CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE; 3. Duties in contract and tort; 4. Breach of duty; 5. Actions arising from birth; 6. Causation and defences; 7. Institutional liability; PART 3. PATIENTS\' RIGHTS; 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. THE LAW AND REPRODUCTION; 14. Medically assisted reproduction; 15. Reproductive genetics; 16. Abortion; PART 5. MEDICINAL PRODUCTS AND DEVICES; 17. Regulating medicinal products and devices; 18. Products liability; PART 6. REGULATING HUMAN MATERIAL; 19. The legal regulation of the use of human material; 20. Patenting and the human body; PART 7. THE END OF LIFE; 21. Ending life; 22. Death N2 - Replete with references to primary sources and the secondary literature, this major undertaking provides a comprehensive exposition of English medical law, from the organization of health care to the legal meaning of death ER -