Understanding Medical Law [Hardcover]

This book gives the reader a flavour of the main issues arising in medical law, including the problems of consent to treatment, medical negligence, abortion and whether euthanasia should be legalized.This book gives the reader a flavour of the main issues arising in medical law, including the problems of consent to treatment, medical negligence, abortion and whether euthanasia should be legalized.Chapter 1 Introduction to Medical Law; Chapter 2 Consent to Treatment; Chapter 3 Children and Consent; Chapter 4 Medical Negligence; Chapter 5 Confidentiality and Medical Records; Chapter 6 Infertility; Chapter 7 Abortion; Chapter 8 Medical Research; Chapter 9 Death; Chapter 10 Property in the Body and Transplants;US? Greene, B 2005