Law and Medical Ethics

by Alexander McCall Smith (Author), J.K. Mason (Author)

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  Paperback
  1987

  $4.32

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.34

  This work deals with the continuing debate between doctors, lawyers and medical ethicists regarding the provision of modern health care. It offers a wide-ranging treatment of medical law and examines the many ethical issues which beset medicine today. This new edition has been revised and expanded to reflect current debates, including an increase in the coverage of the treatment of transsexualism, additional material on the criminal responsibility of doctors and coverage of persistent vegetative state cases. Written in a clear, concise style, the book offers a broad overview of medical law and its interaction with medical ethics. Both authors are leading authorities in their respective fields and provide the reader with an analysis of ethical concepts based on positive legal principles and court decisions, describing what actually happens in practice rather than what should happen, in this important field.

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $3.34

  This volume offers an analysis of ethical concepts based on positive legal principles and court decisions, describing what actually happens in practice, or where there are no precedents available, what is most likely to happen. Broadly, it deals with the wide range of potentially difficult situations in which the community, as represented by the law, may come into conflict with the medical profession. It provides in-depth analysis of many legal points, together with enhanced footnotes and covers areas of medical law, family law, delict, morality and general ethics. It is suitable for medical practitioners, students of law, medicine and medical ethics, and coroners, nurses and area health authorities.