Research Catalog

Title

Law and medical ethics / J.K. Mason, R.A. McCall Smith.

Author

Mason, J. K. (John Kenyon)

Publication

London : Butterworths, 1994.

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Additional Authors

McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-

Description

xxvii, 451 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Ethics, Medical
• Legislation, Medical
• Medical ethics > Great Britain
• Medical ethics
• Medical laws and legislation > Great Britain
• Medical laws and legislation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Introduction -- 1. The evolution of medical ethics -- II. Reproductive Medicine -- 2. A reform of sex law -- 3. The management of infertility and childlessness -- 4. The control of fertility -- 5. Abortion -- 6. Prenatal screening and wrongful life -- 7. The defective neonate -- III. Medical practice -- 8. Medical confidentiality -- 9. Medical negligence -- 10. Consent to treatment -- 11. Health resources and dilemmas in treatment -- 12. Treatment of the aged -- IV. Death -- 13. The diagnosis of death -- 14. The donation of organs and transplantation -- 15. Euthanasia -- V. Research and experimentation -- 16. Biomedical human research and experimentation -- 17. Research on children and fetal experimentation -- VI. Psychiatry and the law -- 18. Human rights, psychiatry and the law -- 19. Psychiatry and the criminal law -- VII. Appendices -- Appendix A: The hippocratic oath -- Appendix B: Declaration of Geneva -- Appendix C: International code of medical ethics -- Appendix D: Declaration of Tokyo -- Appendix E: Declaration of Oslo -- Appendix F: Declaration of Helsinki -- Appendix G: Specimen living well

ISBN

0406024782

LCCN

^^^94224412^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library