Table of Contents

1: Ethics and medical law
2: The structure of the National Health Service and the rationing of healthcare resources
3: Medical negligence
4: Consent to treatment
5: Confidentiality
6: Contraception, abortion, and pregnancy
7: Reproduction
8: Organ donation and the ownership of body parts
9: Dying and death
10: Mental health law
11: Research

About the Author

Jonathan Herring, Professor of Law, Exeter College, University of Oxford. He is the author of several leading textbooks in the fields of medical, criminal, and family law.