Overview

This collection of articles regarding medical law and ethics brings together a cross-section of the author's work. Kennedy was a former Reith Lecturer and broadcaster. Many of the articles have previously appeared in journals, but all are updated. Some are published here for the first time. This book may be of interest to lawyers with medico-legal concerns, doctors, students and a more general readership following the developments in this scientifically complex and morally contentious area.

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Author:   Ian Kennedy
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.783kg
ISBN:  

9780198255598

ISBN 10:   0198255594
Pages:   390
Publication Date:   01 June 1988
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Emerging problems of medicine, technology, and the law; what is a medical decision?; the legal and ethical implications of postcoital birth control; a husband, a wife and an abortion; the doctor, the pill and the 15-year-old girl; the moral status of the embryo; ethics in clinical decision making - the care of the very-low-birth-weight baby; ""R"". v. ""Arthur Reb"" and the severely disabled new-born baby; the patient on the Clapham omnibus; the law and ethics of informed consent and randomized controlled trials; further thoughts on liability for non-observance of the Provisions of the Human Tissue Act 1961; the donation and transplantation of kidneys - should the law be changed?; transsexualism and single-sex marriage; the technological imperative and its application in health care; the check-out - a humane death?; the law relating to the treatment of the terminally ill; the legal effect of requests by the terminally ill and aged not to receive further treatment from doctors; switching off life-support machines - the legal implications. Bibliography. Index."

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