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By
Austen Garwood-Gowers, Senior Lecturer in Law, Department of Academic Legal Studies, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, UK
John Tingle, BA, Law(Hons), Cert Ed MEd Barrister, Director, Centre for Health Law, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, UK; Visiting Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago, IL
Kay Wheat, BA Solicitor, Reader in Law, Senior Lecturer in Law, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Description
This book is designed to provide healthcare professionals with information on current issues in healthcare law and ethics. Key topics
include: the social creation of health law and healthcare; access to healthcare and control of its quality (including the prevention
of health crime, as well as civil control); genetics and disability at the beginning of life; vaccination and medical research during
life; euthanasia at the end of life and the exercise, control and use of body parts after life.
Audience
Healthcare law undergraduates and postgraduates, nursing and medical students following advanced diplomas or postgraduate degrees, practising
and academic lawyers in health law, nursing and medical academics.
Contents
Contributors
List of Cases
List of Statutes
Introduction
Section 1 – Regulating Healthcare
1. The Social
Creation of Health Law and Health in the United States
2. Does it Pay to be NICE? Resolving the ?Legitimacy Problem? in the Allocation
of Healthcare Resources
3. The Ownership of Clinical Risk in Acute Hospitals in England – An Historical Perspective
4. Does the
Bolam Principle Still Reign in Medical Negligence Cases in Malaysia?
5. Medico-crime in the UK: An Introduction
Section
2 – Reproductive Technologies
6. New Reproductive Technologies – Discourse and Dilemma
7. Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis – Towards a Principled Construction of Law?
Section 3 – Bodies and Body Parts
8. Human Bodies, Inhuman Uses: Public
Relations and Legislative Responses to the Scandals of Body Snatching
9. Nemo Censetur Ignorare Legem? Presumed Consent to Organ Donation
in France, from Parliament to Hospitals
Section 4 – Questionable Interventions During Life
10. The Proper Limits
for Medical Intervention that Harms the Therapeutic Interests of Incompetents
11. Infant Vaccination: A Conflict of Ethical Imperatives?
12.
Cyberwoman and Her Surgeon in the Twenty-First Century
Section 5 – The End of Life
13. Legal Recognition of the
Right to Die
14. Regulating Active Voluntary Euthanasia: What can England and Wales Learn From Belgium and the Netherlands?
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Paperback, 338 pages, publication date: AUG-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8832-1
ISBN-10: 0-7506-8832-7
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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