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Mason J K

Law and medical ethics - 6th - London Butterworths 2002 - 704p xxi

Table of contents
INTRODUCTION;
1. Introduction; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE;
2. Aspects of sex law;
3. The mangement of infertility and childlessness;
4. The control of fertility;
5. Abortion;
6. Prenatal screening and wrongful life;
7. Genetic information and the law;
MEDICAL PRACTICE;
8. Medical confidentiality;
9. Medical negligence;
10. Consent to treatment;
11. Health resources and dilemmas in treatment;
12. Treatment of the aged; DEATH;
13. The diagnosis of death;
14. The donation of organs and transplantation;
15. The body as property;
16. Medical futility (or non-productive medical treatment): I The beginning of life;
17. Medical futility: II Later life;
18. Euthanasia; RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION;
19. Biomedical human research and experimentation;
20. Research on children, fetuses and embryos;
PSYCHIATRY AND THE LAW;
21. Human Rights, psychiatry and the law;
22. Psychiatry and the criminal law;
INDEX

ISBN: 9780406949950

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1.Law - Medicine2.Medical Profession - Ethics

Dewey Class. No.: 344.041000 / MAS