Previous edition: published as by Margaret Brazier and Emma Cave. 2016. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The practice of medicine: yesterday -- The practice of medicine: today -- Doctors' responsibilities: patients' rights -- Medicine, moral dilemmas and the law -- A relationship of trust and confidence -- Agreeing to treatment -- Capacity, consent and compulsion -- Clinical negligence -- Malpractice litigation -- The criminal process and medical malpractice -- Complaints and redress -- Medical products liability -- Contraception, pregnancy and childbirth -- Assisted conception -- Embryo research -- Abortion -- Doctors and children -- Healthcare research -- Defining death -- Organ and tissue transplantation -- The human body and its parts -- The end of life.
Series:
Contemporary issues in bioethics, law and medical humanities
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