This is an analysis of medical ethical concepts based on legal principles and court decisions, describing what actually happens in practice rather than what should happen and, where there are no precedents available, what is most likely to ...
... that the decision of Dr Todd can be rationally and responsibly supported ... whatever may have been his alternatives. ... in Walker-Smith v GMC146 the court recognised that the line between innovative treatment and experimental ...
This classic textbook focuses on medical law and its relationship with medical practice and modern ethics.
The last edition included a new chapter on the European dimension to health care, and this edition continues to take a comparative approach, with particular importance attached to the shift in influence from transatlantic jurisdictions to ...
It was discussed many years ago as a special issue by the Royal Commission on Compensation for Personal Injury (the Pearson Commission),13 and Lord Woolf addressed the matter in his wide-ranging investigation into the operation of the ...
This new edition of Law and Medical Ethics continues to chart the ever-widening field that the topics cover.
Medicine, Patients and the Lawis 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...
Bioethics is philosophical in nature, as well as the also influential Journal of Medical Ethics.20 Others, such as the Medical Law Review and Medical Law International, are primarily legal yet also discuss ethical issues.
It is a view that is often associated with the American philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson . In her seminal article ' A Defense of Abortion ' ( 1971 ) she claimed that since a woman ' owns ' her body she has the right to reject any ...
5.05 Royal Commission on Compensation for Personal Injury (the Pearson Commission),15 and Lord Woolf addressed the matter in his wide-ranging investigation into the opera- tion of the system of civil justice.
This collection brings together essays from leading figures in the field of medical law and ethics which address the key issues currently challenging scholars in the field.