Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I Medicine, law and society
1 The practice of medicine today
2 Doctors' responsibilities: patient's rights
3 Medicine, moral dilemmas and the law
4 A relationship of trust and confidence

Part II: Medical malpractice
5 Agreeing to treatment
6 Capacity, consent and compulsion
7 Clinical negligence
8 Medical litigation
9 Complaints and redress
10 Medical products liability

Part III: Matters of life and death
11 Pregnancy
12 Assisted conception
13 Abortion and embryo research
14 Doctors and children
15 Healthcare research
16 Defining death
17 Organ & tissue transplantation
18 Human body and parts
19 End of life
Index

About the Author

Margaret Brazier is Professor in the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy in the School of Law at the University of Manchester

Emma Cave is a Reader in Law at Durham Law School at the University of Durham

Reviews

‘In this book the authors provide an incisive survey of the legal situation surrounding the areas of fertility treatment, patient consent, assisted dying, malpractice and medical privacy. This 6th Edition has been fully revised and updated to cover the latest cases from assisted dying to informed consent, legislative reform of the NHS, professional regulation and redress, European regulations on data protection and clinical trials, and legislation and policy reforms on organ donation, assisted conception and mental capacity.’
The Lamp, March 2017
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