Overview
Though more and more medical disputes are reaching the courts, English law still essentially allows doctors to set their own standards. Criticism of this stance, as of medical paternalism itself, centres on the denials of patients' rights. But the interest that patients have in their well-being should not be expressed exclusively through the assertion of rights. Unqualified self-determination and the moves towards contractualism in the restructured NHS may be detrimental to patient welfare. A collaborative apprach to medical care can offer distinctive therapeutic advantages as well as due respect for patient autonomy. Increasingly, patients wish to be involved in decisions about their treatment. In the key legal area of liability for negligence it would be consistent with legal principle, and with developments in other jurisdictions, to accord less weight to customary practice and more to patients' reasonable expectations.This book offers a sustained treatment of these issues, primarily as they arise in the hospital setting, but looking too at a range of therapies in different contexts. As such it provides a unique analysis of the central areas of medical law written in a fashion that will be appealing to anyone with an interest in medicine, health care and the law.
Full Product Details
Author: Harvey Teff (Professor of Law and former Head of Department, Professor of Law and former Head of Department, University of Durham)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Clarendon Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.40cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.30cm
Weight: 0.520kg
ISBN: 9780198255789
ISBN 10: 0198255780
Pages: 302
Publication Date: 29 December 1994
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Medical practitioners concerned or downright worried about medical negligence would do well to consult Harvey Teff's Reasonable Care ... it offers important reading for legal scholars and for busy medical practitioners who ought to be aware of such landmark cases as Bolam, Alcock, Gold, Maynard, and Rogers v Whitaker as well as of the (changing attitude of the courts today ... extra-ordinarily well-written and well-researched ... he has a splendid grasp of this fast-changing uncertain medicolegal epoch - historically, politically, sociologically, and philosophically ...his arguments are persuasive, reasonable, and caring ... thanks to Teff's book, medical practitioners will have a healthy way of thinking about their profession and the law itself - maybe even about lawyers too. The Lancet we can only be grateful to him for a thought-provoking, if expensive, contribution to a debate of potentially wide-ranging impact Bulletin of Medical Ethics Medical practitioners concerned or downright worried about medical negligence would do well to consult Harvey Teff's Reasonable Care: Legal Perspectives on the Doctor/Patient Relationship. It offers important reading for legal scholars and for busy medical practitioners who ought to be aware of such landmark cases as Bolam, Alcock, Gold, Maynard, and Rogers Whitaker as well as of the (changing) attitude of the courts today ... extraordinarily well-written and well-researched ... he has a splendid grasp of this fast-changing, uncertain medicolegal epoch - historically, politically, sociologically, and philosophically ... His arguments are persuasive, reasonable, and caring ... Thanks to Teff's book, medical practitioners will have a healthy way of thinking about their profession and the law itself - maybe even about lawyers too. The Lancet
Author Information
Harvey Teff is a Doctor of the Middle Temple and a barrister.
