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• Title:Legal and ethical aspects of healthcare / S.A.M. McLean, J.K. Mason.
  
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• Variant Title:Legal & ethical aspects of healthcare
  
• Author/Creator:McLean, Sheila A.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Mason, J. K. (John Kenyon)
  
• Published/Created:London ; San Francisco : Greenwich Medical Media, ©2003.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W32.6 .M393 2003
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects: Medical care--Great Britain.
  Patients--Civil rights--Great Britain.
  Patients--Legal status, laws, etc.--Great Britain.
  
• Medical Subjects:Delivery of Health Care--legislation & jurisprudence.
  Ethics, Medical.
  
• Description:xi, 252 pages ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:"There can be few aspects of life which have altered so dramatically in the past few decades as the relationship between medicine and the law. Treatments become more and more sophisticated as each advance in medicine is made. At the same time, the legal and moral issues surrounding such treatments have multiplied and have become increasingly sensitive and complex. Introducing the reader to important topics which include genetics, consent, negligence, research, assisted reproduction and mental health, the book outlines what the current law is, why it is so and what it may become in the future. Legal and Ethical Aspects of Healthcare is written by a lawyer and a doctor, each with extensive practical experience in the field. It provides wide-ranging coverage of the most important ethical and moral issues that face healthcare professionals, lawyers and the general public alike and it offers a unique insight into the problems that healthcare providers and patients can be expected to encounter both today and in the future. All healthcare professionals at any level of training or practice, lawyers and interested members of the general public. Book jacket."--Jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:1841101281
  
• Contents:Ch. 1. About medicine and the law
  Ch. 2. Resources
  Who decides?
  Ch. 3. The confidential relationship
  Ch. 4. The therapeutic partnership
  Ch. 5. Refusal of consent
  Ch. 6. Medical negligence
  Ch. 7. Using people for research
  Ch. 8. Assisted reproduction
  Ch. 9. Genetics and pregnancy
  Ch. 10. Termination of pregnancy
  Ch. 11. Genetics, insurance and employment
  Ch. 12. Is life worth living?
  Ch. 13. Disposal of the body and body parts
  Ch. 14. Sex, gender and the law
  Ch. 15. Mental health and mental capacity
  Ch. 16. The law and the elderly.