Principles of Medical Law
4th Edition
Published on 6. April 2017
1320 pages
978-0-19-104639-1 (ISBN)
Description
Principles of Medical Law is the leading practitioner text in its field. Now in its fourth edition, it provides a comprehensive and scholarly account of the common law and statutory provisions governing healthcare provision in England and Wales. It offers an authoritative and up-to-date account of medical law whilst also seeking to set the law in context and critique its application. The contributors include many of the leading academics and practitioners working in the area of medical law today, who together offer a balanced, reliable, and considered perspective. The clear layout, accessible writing style, extensive referencing, and detailed index make this an indispensable research tool for practitioners and academics alike.
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Judith Laing | Jean McHale | Ian Kennedy
Principles of Medical Law
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03/2017
4th Edition
Oxford University Press
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Dr Judith Laing is a Reader in the School of Law at the University of Bristol. She has published extensively in a number of peer-reviewed journals and edited collections on aspects of mental health, medical law, and criminal law and justice. As well as being involved with previous editions of Principles of Medical Law, her books include Care or Custody? Mentally Disordered Offenders in the Criminal Justice System (OUP, 1999) and Criminal Justice, Mental Health and the Politics of Risk (edited with Gray & Noaks; Routledge, 2001). Judith is a member of the Editorial Board of the Medical Law Review and Journal of Medical Law and Ethics, and she has previously held editorial positions with the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law and the Journal of Law and Society.
Jean V. McHale is Professor of Health Care Law and Director of the Centre for Health Law, Science & Policy at the University of Birmingham. Her books include Medical Confidentiality and Legal Privilege (Routledge, 1993); Health Care Law: Texts, Cases and Materials (with Fox) (2nd ed. 2007, Sweet and Maxwell); Law and Nursing (3rd ed. with Tingle, Butterworths, Heinmann, 2007); Principles of Mental Health Law (edited with Bartlett, Gostin, Fennell, and McKay) (OUP, 2010); Routledge Handbook on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (edited with Gale) (Routledge, 2015); and European Health Law: Themes and Implications (with Hervey) (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Content
- Part 1. The health care system
- 1: Keith Syrett: The organisation of health care
- 2: Paula Case: Regulating health care professions
- Part 2. Clinical negligence
- 3: Rachel Mulheron: Duties in contract and tort
- 4: Philippa Whipple QC and Philip Havers QC: Breach of duty
- 5: Stephen Todd: Actions arising from birth
- 6: Richard Goldberg: Causation and defences
- 7: Keith Syrett: Institutional liability
- Part 3. Patients' rights
- 8: Jean McHale: Consent to treatment: the competent patient
- 9: Neil Allen and Sir James Munby: The test for capacity
- 10: Neil Allen and Sir James Munby: Consent to treatment: patients lacking capacity and children
- 11: Judith Laing and Nicola Glover-Thomas: Mental health law
- 12: Mark Taylor: Confidentiality and data protection
- 13: Jean McHale: Clinical research
- Part 4. The law and reproduction
- 14: Michael Freeman: Medically assisted reproduction
- 15: Michael Freeman: Reproductive genetics
- 16: Emily Jackson: Abortion
- Part 5. Medicinal products and devices
- 17: Christopher Hodges: The regulation of medicinal products and medical devices
- 18: Richard Goldberg: Products liability
- Part 6. Regulating human material
- 19: Jean McHale: The legal regulation of the use of human material
- 20: Amanda Warren-Jones: Patenting and the human body
- Part 7. The end of life
- 21: Jonathan Herring: Ending life
- 22: Murray Earle: Death
