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

Promotional Information

First Prize in Basis of Medicine in the 2019 BMA Medical Book Awards

About the Author

Jonathan Herring is Professor of Law at Exeter College, University of Oxford. He is a widely published author across several disciplines, including criminal law, family law, and legal ethics.

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First Prize in Basis of Medicine in the 2019 BMA Medical Book Awards