Subjects:

Medical Law

Contents:

Health Care in Private Hands

Information, Technology, Accountability

The Manipulation of Medical Practice

Clinical Guidelines, Negligence, Practice

The Challenge of Medical Negligence Claims

The Limits of Informed Consent

Patient Autonomy - a Turn in the Tide?

Legal Limits: When does Autonomy Prevail?

Law, Society, and the New Genetics

The Ethics of Human Cloning

Diversity and the New Genetics

Gene Therapy - Cure or Challenge?

The Unborn Child and its Addicted Mother

The Embryo in Islamic Jurisprudence

The Best Interests of Very Sick Children

Autonomy and Caesarian Section

Policing Pregnancy: Rights and Wrongs

The Gifts of Life-donating Gametes

Consent and Intent in Assisted Reproduction

Symbolic harm and Reproductive Practices

Inherent Rights in Assisted Reproduction

Viagra and the Rhetoric of Choice and Need

The Politics of Paternity

Research on Human Subjects

Priorities for Biomedical Research

NZ Health Research with Children

Medical Data and the Need for Principles

Pre-employment Health Screening

Facilitating Live Adult Donor Transplants?

Thrift Euthanasia in Theory and Practice

The Comatose Pregnant Woman

Taking Stock of the Mental Health Act

Mind and Body: Medicine and Law

Law and Medicine, the third volume in the Current Legal issues series, is a comprehensive and provocative treatment of an area that will stimulate and enlighten anyone interested in law and medicine.;This volume considers the many areas where medicine intersects with the law. Advances in medical research, reproductive science and genetic research give rise to ethical and legal issues that are well known. These are reflected in chapters on cloning, organ donation, choosing genetic characteristics and the use of Viagra.

At the same time changes in health care funding call into question the rights of patients, whilst a rise in medical negligence litigation calls into question the doctor's duty of care. What rights will patients have in a privately funded health service and what room is there for the patient's right to choose or refuse treatment in such a system?

The changing structure of health care is in the government's hands comes whilst the supply of technology and drugs flows unregulated by market forces. In the future clashes between what can be done and what ought to be done will be increasingly referred to the courts. All of these important and changing facets of law and medicine are reflected in this collection.