| Description |
xxvii, 451 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
I. Introduction -- 1. The evolution of medical ethics -- II. Reproductive Medicine -- 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. The defective neonate -- III. Medical practice -- 8. Medical confidentiality -- 9. Medical negligence -- 10. Consent to treatment -- 11. Health resources and dilemmas in treatment -- 12. Treatment of the aged -- IV. Death -- 13. The diagnosis of death -- 14. The donation of organs and transplantation -- 15. Euthanasia -- V. Research and experimentation -- 16. Biomedical human research and experimentation -- 17. Research on children and fetal experimentation -- VI. Psychiatry and the law -- 18. Human rights, psychiatry and the law -- 19. Psychiatry and the criminal law -- VII. Appendices -- Appendix A: The hippocratic oath -- Appendix B: Declaration of Geneva -- Appendix C: International code of medical ethics -- Appendix D: Declaration of Tokyo -- Appendix E: Declaration of Oslo -- Appendix F: Declaration of Helsinki -- Appendix G: Specimen living well |
| Analysis |
England |
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Medicine Law |
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Wales |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Medical ethics.
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Medical jurisprudence.
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Medical laws and legislation -- Great Britain.
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Medical laws and legislation.
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Ethics, Medical.
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Legislation, Medical.
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| Author |
McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-
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| LC no. |
94224412 |
| ISBN |
0406024782 |
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