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 happen.
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 classic textbook focuses on medical law and its relationship with medical practice and modern ethics.
Mason & McCall Smith's Law & Medical Ethics
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 ...
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 ...
This work deals with the continuing debate between doctors, lawyers and medical ethicists regarding the provision of modern health care. It offers a wide-ranging treatment of medical law and examines...
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.
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...
Although medicine is used as the book's primary example, the points made apply equally to aviation, industrial activities, and many other fields of human endeavour.
Medical Law and Ethics is a feature-rich introduction to medical law and ethics, discussing key principles, cases, and statutes.