Lecture Notes: Medical Law and Ethics (Lecture Notes)
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Lecture Notes: Medical Law and Ethics introduces the legal framework related to medicine and discusses the ethics surrounding these issues.The content is divided into:- Sources of medical law and ethics- Consent, confidentiality and clinical negligence- Mental health- Issues - describing the law and discussing the ethics in relation to abortion, reproductive technology, surrogacy and end-of-life issues- Maintaining professional standards- Doctors' rightsIn addition the appendix provides further information and guidance including:- Philosophers who have influenced medical ethics- Further reading- How to access legal reference material- Case law- StatutesLecture Notes: Medical Law and Ethics is written specifically for medical students, junior doctors, general practitioners and allied health professionals. This text allows the reader to understand the law and legal implications and clearly outlines the difference between law and ethics.
Lecture Notes: Medical Law and Ethicsintroduces the legal framework related to medicine and discusses the ethics surrounding these issues.The content is divided into:- Sources of medical law and ethics- Consent, confidentiality and clinical negligence- Mental health- Issues - describing the law and discussing the ethics in relation to abortion, reproductive technology, surrogacy and end-of-life issues- Maintaining professional standards- Doctors' rightsIn addition the appendix provides further information and guidance including:- Philosophers who have influenced medical ethics- Further reading- How to access legal reference material- Case law- StatutesLecture Notes: Medical Law and Ethicsis written specifically for medical students, junior doctors, general practitioners and allied health professionals. This text allows the reader to understand the law and legal implications and clearly outlines the difference between law and ethics.
From the Author
James Bogle is Barrister of the Middle Temple, 10 King's Bench Walk, Inner Temple, London.
Philip Howard is Consultant physician and Senior Lecturer in medicine, Epson and St. Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust and St. George's Hospital Medical School.
Lecture Notes: Medical Law and Ethics (Lecture Notes),Philip Howard,James Bogle,Blackwell Publishers,1405118687,Ethics,Ethics, Clinical,Forensic Medicine,Great Britain,Jurisprudence,Law,Legal Reference / Law Profession,Medical Law & Legislation,Medical ethics,Medical jurisprudence
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