Mason and McCall Smith's law and medical ethics /

Mason, J. K.

Mason and McCall Smith's law and medical ethics / Law and medical ethics J.K. Mason, CBE MD LLD FRCPath FRCP (Edin) FRSE, Regius Professor (Emeritus) of Forensic Medicine at the University of Edinburgh; G.T. Laurie, LLB PhD FRSE FMed Sci FRCP(Edin), Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh. - Tenth edition. - U.K: Oxford; 2016 - xlix, 740 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Medical ethics and medical practice -- Public health and the state-patient relationship -- Health rights and obligations in the European Union -- Consent to treatment -- Liability for medical injury -- Medical confidentiality -- Genetic information and the law -- The management of infertility and childlessness -- The control of fertility -- Civil and criminal liability in reproductive medicine -- Health resources and dilemmas in treatment -- Treatment of the aged -- Mental health and human rights -- The body as property -- Medical futility -- The diagnosis of death -- The donation of organs and transplantation -- Euthanasia and assistance in dying -- Biomedical human research and experimentation -- Research on children, fetuses and embryos.

9780198747512 0199659907

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Medical laws and legislation.
Medical ethics.

K3601 / .M38 2016