Research Catalog

Title

Health care law / Jonathan Montgomery.

Author

Montgomery, Jonathan

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2003.

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Details

Description

xlviii, 515 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

'Health Care Law' provides a readable and accessible outline of the law governing health care. It highlights and examines the many areas of dispute over the interpretation of the law in this area.

Subject

• Bioethical Issues
• Patient Rights > legislation & jurisprudence
• Delivery of Health Care > legislation & jurisprudence
• Legislation, Medical
• Medical laws and legislation > Great Britain
• Medical care > Law and legislation > Great Britain
• United Kingdom

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The scope and sources of health care law -- Part I: Health and the law -- 2. Public health law -- 3. Rights to national health service care -- 4. The structure of the NHS -- 5. National health service complaints -- Part II: Health care practice and the law -- 6. Professional regulation -- 7. Malpractice litigation I: the law -- 8. Malpractice litigation II: in practice -- 9. Medicines and the law -- Part III: The position of the patient -- 10. Consent to treatment -- 11. Confidentiality and data protection -- 12. Care for children -- 13. Mental health -- 14. Research -- Part IV: Health care law and ethics -- 15. Abortion -- 16. Fertility -- 17. Maternity care -- 18. Selective treatment of the newborn -- 19. Transplantation -- 20. Terminal care and euthanasia -- 21. Regulating health care ethics.

ISBN

0198765746

LCCN

^^2002070188

OCLC

50315384

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library