Mason and McCall Smith's law and medical ethics / G.T. Laurie LLB PhD FRSE FMedSci FRCP (Edin), Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh ; S.H.E. Harmon Esq., BA LLB LLM PhD FHEA, Lecturer in Regulation and Risk at the University of Edinburgh ; G. Porter LLB LLM, Lecturer in Medical Law and Ethics at the University of Edinburgh.
Machine generated contents note: 20. Embryos and embryonic stem cell research. basis for medical ethics -- organisation of modern medicine -- Whistleblowing -- Advertising -- Legal intervention in medicine -- doctor's position -- 2. Public Health and the State-Patient Relationship -- Introduction -- Human rights and medical law -- Health promotion: improving the health of the community -- Health protection: handling threats to the community -- Public health, physicians, and security -- Conclusion -- 3. Health Rights and Obligations in the European Union -- European market for health -- Health care policy in the EU -- Rights and access to health care in the EU -- Cross-border access to health care in the EU -- Ethics in science and new technologies in the EU -- 4. Consent to Treatment -- limits to consent -- Refusal of treatment by adults -- Consent and its social consequences -- Proceeding without consent: The consequences -- negligence action and the vagaries of information disclosure -- 5. Liability For Medical Injury -- Alternatives to the negligence system -- basis of medical liability -- What constitutes negligence -- problem of the novice -- Protecting patients from themselves -- Res ipsa loquitur -- Operational failures -- Causation -- Injuries caused by medical products or devices -- Criminal negligence -- 6. Medical Confidentiality -- Introduction -- Relaxation of the rule -- Confidentiality and the legal process -- Patient access to medical records -- Confidentiality and death -- Conclusion -- 7. Genetic Information And The Law -- Introduction -- Genetic counselling and fetal testing for genetic disease -- Legal and ethical responses to the `familial' nature of genetics -- Individual and family interests in genetic information -- right to know and a right not to know -- Other parties' interests in genetic information -- Research involving genetic material -- State interest in genetic information -- Gene therapy and gene editing -- Cloning -- Conclusion -- 8. Management Of Infertility And Childlessness -- Introduction -- control of assisted reproduction in the United Kingdom -- Insemination -- infertile or childless woman -- Surrogate motherhood -- Conclusion -- 9. Control Of Fertility -- Introduction -- concept of personhood -- Contraception -- Contragestation -- Sterilisation -- Termination of pregnancy -- Conclusion -- 10. Civil and Criminal Liability in Reproductive Medicine -- uncovenanted child: The action for wrongful pregnancy -- Reproductive counselling and negligence: The action for wrongful birth -- Wrongful (or diminished) life actions -- Wrongful injury to the fetus and feticide -- 11. Health Resources and Dilemmas in Treatment -- Introduction -- Global distribution of resources -- allocation of national resources -- Treatment of the individual -- Conclusion -- 12. Treatment of the Aged -- Introduction -- Autonomy, paternalism, and responsibility -- Fragmentation, complexity, uncertainty -- new approach to care services -- elder incapax -- Dying from old age -- Conclusion -- 13. Mental Health and Human Rights -- Introduction -- evolution of mental health law -- Paternalism, capacity, and mental health -- treatment framework -- Human rights and mental disorder -- Mental health, criminality, and liability -- Conclusion -- 14. Body as Property -- Introduction -- property debate broadly understood -- Property in material from living humans -- Property in cadavers and cadaveric tissue -- Intellectual property in human tissue -- Conclusion -- 15. Medical Futility -- Introduction -- Part 1: The beginning of life -- concept of medical futility -- Part 2: The end of life -- patient in the permanent vegetative state -- US position -- Are we being honest? -- `Do not resuscitate' orders -- Conclusion -- 16. Diagnosis of Death -- Concepts of death -- medico-legal effects of applying brain stem death criteria -- 17. Donation of Organs and Transplantation -- Introduction -- Technical criteria for transplantation -- living donor -- cadaveric donor -- fetus or neonate donor -- Reconstructive transplants -- Conclusion -- 18. Euthanasia and Assistance in Dying -- Introduction -- classification of assisted dying -- Health carers -- a distinct group? -- Non-voluntary termination of life -- capable patient -- Assisted dying in practice -- Conclusion -- 19. Biomedical Human Research and Experimentation -- Introduction -- evolution of rule-making -- Conducting medical research -- Randomised controlled trials -- Experimental treatment -- Research and informed consent -- unethical researcher -- Compensation for personal injury in research -- Research involving human tissue and personal data -- New approaches to research governance -- Conclusion -- 20. Research On Children, Fetuses, And Embryos -- Non-therapeutic research on children -- Therapeutic research on children -- Fetal research and experimentation -- Embryos and embryonic stem cell research.
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