Principles of Medical Law
by Judith Laing, Jean McHale
4th Edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780198732518 |
| eText ISBN | 9780191046391 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Publishing Year | 2017 |
| Edition | 4th Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 1344 |
Principles of Medical Law, 4th Edition, provides an authoritative account of the common law and statutory provisions governing healthcare provision in England and Wales. The volume delivers scholarly analysis of the legal principles shaping the modern healthcare system, professional regulation, and clinical accountability.
Across twenty-two chapters, the text explores major legal areas such as clinical negligence, patient autonomy, and the regulation of medical technologies. It examines topics ranging from consent to treatment and reproductive ethics to the legal rules governing human biological material and the end of life.
Equipped with extensive referencing and a detailed index, this reference serves as a primary research tool for legal practitioners, academic scholars, and students investigating medical jurisprudence.
Table of Contents
Part 1: The health care system
Chapter 1: The organisation of health care
Chapter 2: Regulating health care professions
Part 2: Clinical negligence
Chapter 3: Duties in contract and tort
Chapter 4: Breach of duty
Chapter 5: Actions arising from birth
Chapter 6: Causation and defences
Chapter 7: Institutional liability
Part 3: Patients' rights
Chapter 8: Consent to treatment: the competent patient
Chapter 9: The test for capacity
Chapter 10: Consent to treatment: patients lacking capacity and children
Chapter 11: Mental health law
Chapter 12: Confidentiality and data protection
Chapter 13: Clinical research
Part 4: The law and reproduction
Chapter 14: Medically assisted reproduction
Chapter 15: Reproductive genetics
Chapter 16: Abortion
Part 5: Medicinal products and devices
Chapter 17: The regulation of medicinal products and medical devices
Chapter 18: Products liability
Part 6: Regulating human material
Chapter 19: The legal regulation of the use of human material
Chapter 20: Patenting and the human body
Part 7: The end of life
Chapter 21: Ending life
Chapter 22: Death
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