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Author Mason, J. K. (John Kenyon)

Title Law and medical ethics / J.K. Mason and R.A. McCall Smith
Edition Third edition
Published London ; Austin, Tex. : Butterworths, 1991

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 MELB  KN 185 Mas/Lam 1991  AVAILABLE
Description xxvi, 464 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents 1. The evolution of medical ethics -- 2. A reform of sex law? -- 3. The management of infertility and childlessness -- 4. The control of fertility -- 5. Abortion -- 6. Prenatal screening and wrongful life -- 7. Neonaticide and selective non-treatment of the newborn -- 8. Medical confidentiality -- 9. Consent to treatment -- 10. Medical negligence -- 11. Health resources and dilemmas in treatment -- 12. Treatment of the aged -- 13. The diagnosis of death -- 14. The donation of organs and transplantation -- 15. Euthanasia -- 16. Biomedical human experimentation -- 17. Research on children and fetal experimentation -- 18. Human rights, psychiatry and the law -- 19. Psychiatry and the criminal law
Analysis England
Medicine Law
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Medical ethics.
Medical jurisprudence.
Medical laws and legislation -- Great Britain.
Medical laws and legislation.
Author McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-
LC no. 91175857
ISBN 0406500789 (paperback)