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Text Cases and Materials on Medical Law 1st Table of contents:

 Table of European treaties and conventions
1 The ethics of medical law
Chapter objectives
SETTING THE SCENE
Introduction
Medical ethics and bioethics
Human rights and religion
Secular bioethics: what is available?
Rejection of change
Chapter summary
Chapter essay
Chapter case study
Further reading
2 The allocation of healthcare resources
Chapter objectives
SETTING THE SCENE
Introduction
The National Health Service
How can we ration resources?
The judiciary and healthcare rationing
Travelling for treatment: Brits and asylum seekers
Chapter summary
Chapter essay
Chapter case study
Further reading
3 Medical negligence
Chapter objectives
SETTING THE SCENE
Introduction
The criteria for negligence
Liability for negligence before birth
Liability for negligence after birth (i.e. general medical negligence)
Defences to negligence
Limits to a claim
The criminal law
The General Medical Council
Making a complaint: NHS treatment
Problems with the medical negligence system
Looking to the future in medical negligence
Private care: breach of contract
Chapter summary
Chapter essay
Chapter case study
Further reading
4 Consent
Chapter objectives
SETTING THE SCENE
Introduction
What is consent?
The legal consequences of ignoring a competent refusal
The ‘scope’ of competence
Adults: confirming incapacity
Treating incompetent adults
Refusing treatment through an advance directive
The Court of Protection
Appointing a decision-maker
Children: incompetent
Children: competent
Consenting to risks
Chapter summary
Chapter essay
Chapter case study
Further reading
5 Confidentiality
Chapter objectives
SETTING THE SCENE
Introduction
What is confidentiality and why is it important?
The statute law on confidentiality
The common law on confidentiality
The guidelines on confidentiality
The Code of Practice for Confidentiality
Patients who lack capacity
The rights of deceased patients
Contractible diseases, anonymity and research
Remedies for a breach of confidentiality
Chapter summary
Chapter essay
Chapter case study
Further reading
6 Abortion
Chapter objectives
SETTING THE SCENE
Introduction
What is the morning-after pill?
What is an abortion?
The history of abortion
The law of abortion (development)
The law of abortion (present): the Abortion Act 1967
Problems with section 1 of the 1967 Act
Barriers to abortion
Patients who lack capacity
Fathers and foetuses: legal and moral rights
Abortion tourism
Chapter summary
Chapter essay
Chapter case study
Further reading
7 Mental Health Law
Chapter objectives
SETTING THE SCENE
Introduction
The ‘autonomy anomaly’ in mental health law
What is a mental disorder?
Detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 (assessment)
Detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 (treatment)
Detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 (emergency and other)
Mental health and human rights
Releasing patients from detention and treatment
Mentally ill patients in the community
Mentally ill prisoners
Voluntary admission into the mental health system
Chapter summary
Chapter essay
Chapter case study
Further reading
8 Assisted conception
Chapter objectives
SETTING THE SCENE
Introduction
The history behind assisted conception
The law on assisted conception
Who can seek assisted conception?
Eggs, sperm and embryos
Who are the legal parents?
Embryo testing and screening
Human cloning
Surrogacy
Chapter summary
Chapter essay
Chapter case study
Further reading
9 Organs
Chapter objectives
SETTING THE SCENE
Introduction
The history of organ donation and transplantation
The current law in the United Kingdom
The organ transplant procedure
Living donor transplantation
The definition of death
The history of the brain stem death test
The current tests for determining death
The controversy surrounding brain stem death
How can we increase the number of donated organs?
The UK and the organ donor register
Chapter summary
Chapter essay
Chapter case study
Further reading
10 Medical research
Chapter objectives
SETTING THE SCENE
Introduction
The international ethical codes
The UK approach to medical research
What is research?
Participating in clinical research
Consent
Medical research in poor countries
Publishing the results of medical research
Compensating research participants
Stem cells and embryos in medical research
Chapter summary
Chapter essay
Chapter case study
Further reading
11 The end of life
Chapter objectives
SETTING THE SCENE
Introduction
The legal issues
Gross negligence manslaughter
Assisted suicide
Palliative care
Refusal of treatment at the end of life
Incompetent adults at the end of life
Children at the end of life
Should euthanasia be legalised?
The law in other countries
Death
Chapter summary
Chapter essay
Chapter case study
Further reading
Bibliography
Index

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