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Mason and McCall Smith's law and medical ethics / J.K. Mason, G.T. Laurie, with a chapter by M. Aziz.
- Title
- Mason and McCall Smith's law and medical ethics / J.K. Mason, G.T. Laurie, with a chapter by M. Aziz.
- Author
- Mason, J. K. (John Kenyon)
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2011.
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- Description
- xlvi, 688 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- This is an analysis of medical ethical concepts based on legal principles and court decisions, describing what actually happens in practice rather than what should happen and, where there are no precedents available, what is most likely to happen.
- Alternative Title
- Law and medical ethics
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Legal Case
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780199227754 (pbk.)
- 0199227756 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 673445425
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library