Medical Law

Text, Cases, and Materials
6. Revised Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-19-284345-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 1072 Seiten, Format (B × H): 192 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 2023 g

Medical Law: Text, Cases, and Materials offers all of the explanation, commentary, and extracts from cases and key materials that students need to gain a thorough understanding of this complex topic. Key case extracts provide the legal context, facts, and background; extracts from materials provide differing ethical perspectives and outline current debates; and the author's insightful commentary ensures that readers understand the facts of the cases and can navigate the ethical landscape to form their own understanding of medical law.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Emily

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Medizin- und Gesundheitsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: An introduction to bioethics

- 2: The provision of health care services: the NHS, resource allocation, and public health

- 3: Medical malpractice

- 4: Informed consent

- 5: Incapacity I: Adults

- 6: Incapacity II: Children

- 7: Mental health law

- 8: Confidentiality

- 9: Genetic information

- 10: Clinical research

- 11: The regulation of medicines

- 12: Organ transplantation

- 13: Embryo research, stem cells, and emerging biotechnologies

- 14: Abortion

- 15: Assisted conception

- 16: Surrogacy

- 17: Assisted dying

Über Autor(innen)

Emily Jackson first joined the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1998. After graduating from Oxford University, she worked as a research officer at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in Oxford. Her first teaching position was at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and she has also taught at Birkbeck College and Queen Mary, University of London. Between 2003 and 2012, Emily was a member and then Deputy Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. She was a Judicial Appointments Commissioner from 2013-2017. She has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2016, and in 2017 was awarded an OBE for services to higher education.