Research Catalog

Title

Law and medicine / edited by Michael Freeman, and Andrew D.E. Lewis.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Freeman, Michael D. A.
• Lewis, A. D. E.

Description

xxxv, 584 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This volume considers the many areas where medicine intersects with the law. It reflects on advances in medical science which give rise to ethical and legal issues and also considers questions of changes in health care funding and patient rights.

Series Statement

Current legal issues ; v. 3

Uniform Title

• University press scholarship online.
• Current legal issues ; v. 3.

Subject

• Medical laws and legislation
• Medical ethics
• Ethics, Medical
• Bioethics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The NHS in private hands? Regulating private providers of NHS services / C. Newdick -- Health care information technology and provider accountability : a symbiotic relationship / F. Miller -- The manipulation of the medical practice / V. Harpwood -- Clinical guidelines, negligence and medical practice / H. Teff -- Threatening behaviour? The challenge posed by medical negligence claims / L. Mulcahy -- Information, decisions, and the limits of informed consent / C. Schneider and M. Farrell -- Patient autonomy -- a turn in the tide? / R. Bailey-Harris -- Legal limits : when does autonomy in health care prevail? / A. Flamm and H. Forster -- Law, society and the new genetics / R. Dingwall -- The ethics of human cloning / B. Steinbock -- Written in code : diversity and the new genetics / B. Bennett -- Gene therapy -- cure or challenge? / S. McLean -- Protecting the unborn child from its drug or alcohol abusing mother / K. Norrie -- Status of the embryo in the light of Islamic jurisprudence / A. Ebrahim -- Can we leave the best interests of very sick children to their parents? / M. Freeman -- The Caesarean section cases and the supremacy of autonomy / J. Herring -- Policing pregnancy : rights and wrongs / M. Blake -- The gifts of life -- donating gametes and the consequences / L. Waller and D. Mortimer -- Consent and intent : the legal differences in assisted reproductive treatments / F. Shenfield -- Symbolic harm and reproductive practices / E. Boetzkes -- Viagra is coming! The rhetoric of choice and need / H. Biggs and R. Mackenzie -- The politics of paternity : foetal risks and reproductive harm / C. Daniels and J. Golden -- Research on human subjects, exploitation, and global principles / J. Harris -- Government priorities for biomedical research : what does justice require? / R. Dresser -- Health research with children : New Zealand experience / N. Peart -- Medical data, new information technologies, and the need for normative principles other than privacy rules / A. Vedder -- Pre-employment health screening / D. Kloss -- Human organ transplant ordinance : facilitating adult live donor transplants? / A. Liu -- Thrift-euthanasia, in theory and in practice : a critique of non-heart-beating organ harvesting / H. Ducharme -- The comatose pregnant woman : abortion and the substituted-judgment approach / E. Bernat -- The Mental Health Act : taking stock of the current position and thinking about the future / P. Bartlett -- Mind and body : medicine and law / B. Mahendra.

ISBN

0198299184

LCCN

^^^00037463^

OCLC

43798419

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library