| Descript |
1 online resource (696 p.) |
| Edition |
4th ed. |
| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- Table of Statutes -- Table of Statutory Instruments -- Table of European and International Materials -- 1 Ethics and Medical Law -- 1 What is medical law? -- 2 The nature of illness -- 3 The scope of medicine -- 4 The sociological impact of being ill -- 5 Health statistics -- 6 General ethical principles: introduction -- 7 The notion of rights -- 8 Patients' obligations -- 9 Principlism -- 10 Hermeneutics -- 11 Casuistry -- 12 Feminist medical ethics -- 13 Care ethics -- 14 Virtue ethics -- 15 Communitarian ethics -- 16 Theology -- 17 Relativism |
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18 Pragmatism -- QUESTIONS -- FURTHER READING -- 2 The Structure of the NHS and the Rationing of Health Care Resources -- 1 What are the principles underpinning the NHS? -- 2 The structure of the NHS -- 3 Policy and central planning in the NHS -- 4 Quality control: regulation and inspection -- 5 Commissioning and planning services -- 6 Charging: community v health care -- 7 The provision of services -- 8 The 2011 Health and Social Care Bill -- 9 Structural issues -- 10 Rationing -- 11 Health inequalities -- 12 Regulation by professional or NHS bodies -- 13 Public health: infectious diseases |
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14 Public health: prevention -- QUESTIONS -- FURTHER READING -- 3 Medical Negligence -- 1 The law and medical malpractice: an overview -- 2 Criminal law -- 3 The law of negligence -- 4 The law of contract -- 5 Why do people sue? -- 6 Medical malpractice litigation in practice -- 7 Costs -- 8 Criticisms of the current legal position -- 9 Learning lessons -- 10 The NHS Redress Act 2006 -- 11 No fault -- 12 Matters other than compensation -- 13 Medicines and law -- 14 Conclusion -- QUESTIONS -- FURTHER READING -- 4 Consent to Treatment -- 1 The consequences of treatment without consent |
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2 Who must provide the consent? -- 3 Who has the burden of proving consent? -- 4 What is consent? -- 5 Actions in negligence based on a failure to provide sufficient information -- 6 Professional guidelines -- 7 The non-consenting competent patient -- 8 The treatment of incompetent patients -- 9 Consent of children -- 10 Treatment which cannot be consented to -- 11 Ethics and autonomy -- 12 Ethics and best interests -- 13 Ethical issues surrounding advance directives -- 14 Autonomy and the medical professional-patient relationship -- 15 The ethics of child treatment -- 16 Conclusion -- QUESTIONS |
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FURTHER READING -- 5 Confidentiality -- 1 The legal basis of confidentiality -- 2 Denying breach of confidentiality -- 3 Justifying breach of confidence -- 4 The Data Protection Act 1998 -- 5 Problem issues -- 6 Legal remedies in confidentiality cases -- 7 Access to information -- 8 The ethical issues -- 9 Informational privacy -- 10 Conclusion -- QUESTIONS -- FURTHER READING -- 6 Contraception, Abortion, and Pregnancy -- 1 Contraception: its use and function -- 2 The availability of contraception -- 3 Teenage pregnancy rates -- 4 Abortion and contraception -- 5 Contraception and children |
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6 Contraception, sterilization, and those lacking capacity |
| Note |
200 annual accesses. UkHlHU |
| ISBN |
9780191666254 |
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