Law and medical ethics / J.K. Mason, R.A. McCall Smith.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Butterworths, 1999.Edition: 5th edDescription: xli, 587 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- 9780406896360
- 9780406896360
- 344.41041 MAS 21
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 344.41041 MAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 225898 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Aspects of sex law -- 3. management of infertility and childlessness -- 4. control of fertility -- 5. Abortion -- 6. Prenatal screening and wrongful life -- 7. Genetic information and the law -- 8. Medical confidentiality -- 9. Medical negligence -- 10. Consent to treatment -- 11. Health resources and dilemmas in treatment -- 12. Treatment of the aged -- 13. diagnosis of death -- 14. donation of organs and transplantation -- 15. Medical futility (or non-productive medical treatment): 1 The beginning of life -- 16. Medical futility: 2 Later life -- 17. Euthanasia -- 18. Biomedical human research and experimentation -- 19. Research on children and fetal experimentation -- 20. body as property -- 21. Human rights, psychiatry and the law -- 22. Psychiatry and the criminal law -- App. A. Hippocratic Oath -- App. B. Declaration of Geneva -- App. C. International Code of Medical Ethics -- App. D. Declaration of Tokyo -- App. E. Declaration of Oslo -- App. F. Declaration of Helsinki.