Medicine, Patients and the Law

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Author: Margaret Brazier, Emma Cave
Paperback: 592 pages
Publisher: Penguin (28 Jun 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0141030208
ISBN-13: 978-0141030203
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3 cm

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Medicine, Patients and the Law is a leading book in its field, aimed at practitioners and students of both law and medicine, as well as the general reader. It examines the regulation of medical practice, the rights and duties of patients and their medical advisers, the provision of compensation for medical mishaps and the framework of rules governing those delicate issues of life and death where medicine, morals and the law overlap. The fourth edition of this highly acclaimed book is fully updated to cover recent changes in law and medical practice. Among other current issues, it addresses the radical reforms proposed by the Shipman Inquiry, the impact of change within the NHS, the Mental Capacity Act of 2005 and includes a new chapter on access to health care. Clear explanations of legal issues make this book accessible and absorbing.

About Margaret Brazier and Emma Cave

Margaret Brazier has been a Professor of Law at the University of Manchester since 1990. She has written widely on medical law and ethics. She chaired a review of laws relating to surrogacy from 1996-1998 and chaired the Retained Organs Commission from 2001-2004. She is the Editor of the Medical Law Review.

Dr Emma Cave is a lecturer in tort and medical law at the University of Leeds. Her research interests include ethics and legal and ethical issues in reproductive medicine and she is author of The Mother of all Crimes, published by Ashgate in 2004.

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Blackstone's Statutes on Medical Law

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Editor: Anne E. Morris, Michael A. Jones
Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: OUP Oxford; 5 edition (2 Aug 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0199211825
ISBN-13: 978-0199211821
Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16.6 x 2.8 cm

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Designed specifically for students, Blackstone’s Statutes lead the market in providing a carefully selected, regularly updated, and well sourced collection of legislation for the core subjects and major options offered on the law syllabus. Each title is ideal for use throughout the course and in exams providing the student with: – Unparalleled coverage – Unannotated primary and secondary legislation – Detailed tables of content to aid quick and efficient research – Up-to-date and relevant material Online Resource Centre Updates Web links

Medical Law and Ethics

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Author: Jonathan Herring
Paperback: 720 pages
Publisher: OUP Oxford; 2 edition (29 May 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0199230668
ISBN-13: 978-0199230662
Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16.6 x 3.8 cm

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Exceptional in the clarity of its explanations, Medical Law and Ethics not only provides coverage of all the important cases, statutes and legal principles but also looks at different ethical viewpoints, including feminist, religious, critical and sociological. Readers are therefore given a firm grounding in the legal principles of medical law, whilst also being encouraged to understand and think about the tensions and debates within its wider social context. In this second edition, boxed features place more emphasis on EU perspectives, and further information on ‘hot topics’ such as medical genetics and prenatal intelligence, PGD and tissue typing is provided.

Detailed and analytical enough for both undergraduate and postgraduate law students, and clear enough to be used by students approaching the subject from a non-legal background, this book gives a user-friendly and thorough introduction to medical law and ethics. Key features Boxes throughout the text highlight different ethical viewpoints, EU perspectives, key cases and real-life examples of the law in action.

Each chapter ends with a clear summary of the present law Further reading lists and end-of-chapter questions help students to further their studies and test their knowledge. Online Resource Centre Accompanied by an Online Resource Centre providing regular updates to the law and weblinks.

About Jonathan Herring

Jonathan Herring received a BA in Jurisprudence and a BCL at Oxford. He is a qualified (non-practising) solicitor. He has been a Fellow in Law and Director of Studies at New Hall, Cambridge and a Lecturer in Law at Christ Church, Oxford. He is presently a Fellow at Exeter College where he has been since 1999.