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• Title:Mason & McCall Smith's law & medical ethics.
  
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• Variant Title:Law & medical ethics
  Mason and McCall Smith's law and medical ethics
  
• Author/Creator:Laurie, G. T. (Graeme T.), author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Harmon, Shawn, author.
  Porter, Gerard, author.
  Mason, J. K. (John Kenyon). Mason and McCall Smith's law and medical ethics. Ninth edition. Revision of:
  
• Published/Created:Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2016]
  

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  • Call Number: KD3395 .L38 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical laws and legislation--Great Britain.
  Medical ethics--Great Britain.
  Medical laws and legislation.
  Medical ethics.
  
• Medical Subjects:European Union.
  Bioethical Issues
  Ethics, Medical
  Legislation, Medical
  Europe
  
• Genre/Form: Law digests.
  
• Edition:Tenth edition / G.T. Laurie LLB PhD FRSE FMedSci FRCP (Edin), Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh ; S.H.E. Harmon Esq., BA LLB LLM PhD FHEA, Lecturer in Regulation and Risk at the University of Edinburgh ; G. Porter LLB LLM, Lecturer in Medical Law and Ethics at the University of Edinburgh.
  
• Description:liii, 740 pages ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:This is an analysis of medical ethical concepts based on legal principles and court decisions, describing what actually happens in practice rather than what should happen and, where there are no precedents available, what is most likely to happen.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0198747519 hardcover
  9780198747512 hardcover
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Medical Ethics and Medical Practice
  basis for medical ethics
  organisation of modern medicine
  Whistleblowing
  Advertising
  Legal intervention in medicine
  doctor's position
  2. Public Health and the State-Patient Relationship
  Introduction
  Human rights and medical law
  Health promotion: improving the health of the community
  Health protection: handling threats to the community
  Public health, physicians, and security
  Conclusion
  3. Health Rights and Obligations in the European Union
  European market for health
  Health care policy in the EU
  Rights and access to health care in the EU
  Cross-border access to health care in the EU
  Ethics in science and new technologies in the EU
  4. Consent to Treatment
  limits to consent
  Refusal of treatment by adults
  Consent and its social consequences
  Proceeding without consent: The consequences
  negligence action and the vagaries of information disclosure
  5. Liability For Medical Injury
  Alternatives to the negligence system
  basis of medical liability
  What constitutes negligence
  problem of the novice
  Protecting patients from themselves
  Res ipsa loquitur
  Operational failures
  Causation
  Injuries caused by medical products or devices
  Criminal negligence
  6. Medical Confidentiality
  Introduction
  Relaxation of the rule
  Confidentiality and the legal process
  Patient access to medical records
  Confidentiality and death
  Conclusion
  7. Genetic Information And The Law
  Introduction
  Genetic counselling and fetal testing for genetic disease
  Legal and ethical responses to the `familial' nature of genetics
  Individual and family interests in genetic information
  right to know and a right not to know
  Other parties' interests in genetic information
  Research involving genetic material
  State interest in genetic information
  Gene therapy and gene editing
  Cloning
  Conclusion
  8. Management Of Infertility And Childlessness
  Introduction
  control of assisted reproduction in the United Kingdom
  Insemination
  infertile or childless woman
  Surrogate motherhood
  Conclusion
  9. Control Of Fertility
  Introduction
  concept of personhood
  Contraception
  Contragestation
  Sterilisation
  Termination of pregnancy
  Conclusion
  10. Civil and Criminal Liability in Reproductive Medicine
  uncovenanted child: The action for wrongful pregnancy
  Reproductive counselling and negligence: The action for wrongful birth
  Wrongful (or diminished) life actions
  Wrongful injury to the fetus and feticide
  11. Health Resources and Dilemmas in Treatment
  Introduction
  Global distribution of resources
  allocation of national resources
  Treatment of the individual
  Conclusion
  12. Treatment of the Aged
  Introduction
  Autonomy, paternalism, and responsibility
  Fragmentation, complexity, uncertainty
  new approach to care services
  elder incapax
  Dying from old age
  Conclusion
  13. Mental Health and Human Rights
  Introduction
  evolution of mental health law
  Paternalism, capacity, and mental health
  treatment framework
  Human rights and mental disorder
  Mental health, criminality, and liability
  Conclusion
  14. Body as Property
  Introduction
  property debate broadly understood
  Property in material from living humans
  Property in cadavers and cadaveric tissue
  Intellectual property in human tissue
  Conclusion
  15. Medical Futility
  Introduction
  Part 1: The beginning of life
  concept of medical futility
  Part 2: The end of life
  patient in the permanent vegetative state
  US position
  Are we being honest?
  `Do not resuscitate' orders
  Conclusion
  16. Diagnosis of Death
  Concepts of death
  medico-legal effects of applying brain stem death criteria
  17. Donation of Organs and Transplantation
  Introduction
  Technical criteria for transplantation
  living donor
  cadaveric donor
  fetus or neonate donor
  Reconstructive transplants
  Conclusion
  18. Euthanasia and Assistance in Dying
  Introduction
  classification of assisted dying
  Health carers
  -a distinct group?
  Non-voluntary termination of life
  capable patient
  Assisted dying in practice
  Conclusion
  19. Biomedical Human Research and Experimentation
  Introduction
  evolution of rule-making
  Conducting medical research
  Randomised controlled trials
  Experimental treatment
  Research and informed consent
  unethical researcher
  Compensation for personal injury in research
  Research involving human tissue and personal data
  New approaches to research governance
  Conclusion
  20. Research On Children, Fetuses, And Embryos
  Non-therapeutic research on children
  Therapeutic research on children
  Fetal research and experimentation
  Embryos and embryonic stem cell research.