Medical ethics is becoming an increasingly important topic in the medical student curriculum. Most medical schools now provide teaching in this area using the new Core Curriculum and it is also an increasingly popular choice for Special Study Modules. This new concise, but comprehensive text concentrates on the fundamentals of both medical ethics and law and provides medical students with core sample cases to explain the law today, key points, and practical advice.
There is an integrated approach that uses medical law as a conceptual framework for ethical discussion.
