Principles of Medical Law

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Principles of Medical Law is the leading practitioner text in its field. Now in its fifth edition, it provides a comprehensive and scholarly account of the common law and statutory provisions governing healthcare provision in England and Wales. It offers an authoritative and account of medical law whilst also seeking to set the law in context and critique its application. The contributors include many of the leading academics and practitioners working in the area of medical law today, who together offer a balanced, reliable, and considered perspective. The clear layout, accessible writing style, extensive referencing, and detailed index make this an indispensable research tool for practitioners and academics alike.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-11-13
Mått:170 x 250 x 50 mm
Vikt:2 166 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:1 424
Upplaga:5
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780192869791

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Judy Laing is Professor of Mental Health Law and Policy and founding co-Director of the Centre for Health, Law and Society at the University of Bristol Law School. She has published extensively in a number of peer-reviewed journals and edited collections on aspects of mental health, medical law, and criminal law and justice. As well as being involved with previous editions of Principles of Medical Law, her books include Care or Custody? Mentally Disordered Offenders in the Criminal Justice System (OUP, 1999) and Criminal Justice, Mental Health and the Politics of Risk (edited with Gray & Noaks; Routledge, 2001). Judy is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry and Medicine, Science and the Law. She has previously held editorial positions with the Medical Law Review, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law and the Journal of Law and Society.Jean McHale is Professor of Health Care Law and Director of the Centre for Health Law, Science & Policy at the University of Birmingham. Her books include Medical Confidentiality and Legal Privilege (Routledge, 1993); Health Care Law: Texts, Cases and Materials (with Fox) (2nd ed. 2007, Sweet and Maxwell); Law and Nursing (3rd ed. with Tingle, Butterworths, Heinmann, 2007); Principles of Mental Health Law (edited with Bartlett, Gostin, Fennell, and McKay) (OUP, 2010); Routledge Handbook on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (edited with Gale) (Routledge, 2015); European Health Law: Themes and Implications (with Hervey) (Cambridge University Press, 2015).: The Regulation of Cosmetic Procedures: Legal., Ethical and Practical Challenges (wiith Latham)(Routledge 2020): Adult Social Care: Lessons from the Pandemic (with Noszlopy (BUP, 2025); and Reimagining Health Law (edited with Krajewska) (Edward Elgar, 2025).

Innehållsförteckning

Part I1: The Organisation of Health Care2: Regulating Health Care ProfessionsPart II3: Duties in Contract and Tort4: Breach of Duty5: Actions Arising from Birth6: Causation and Defences7: Institutional LiabilityPart III8: Consent to Treatment: The Competent Patient9: The Tests for Incapacity10: Care and Treatment of Those Lacking Decision-making Capacity11: Mental Health Law12: Confidentiality and Data Protection13: Clinical ResearchPart IV14: Medically Assisted Reproduction15: AbortionPart V16: The Regulation of Medicinal Products and Medical Devices17: Products LiabilityPart VI18: The Legal Regulation of Human Material19: Medical Innovation, Patenting and the Human BodyPart VII20: Ending Life21: Death