Principles of medical law.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.Edition: 3rd ed. / edited by Andrew Grubb, Judith Laing, Jean McHaleDescription: cix, 1205 p. ; 26 cmISBN:- 9780199544400 (hbk.) :
- 9780199544400 (Cloth)
- 344.41041 GRU
- KD3395
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection | 344.41041 GRU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00213519 |
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
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.