Overview

This book brings together a wide cross-section of the author's work in the field of medical law and ethics. Many of the articles have appeared previously in journals, but all are updated. Some are published here for the first time. Professor Kennedy, a former Reith Lecturer and a well-known scholar and broadcaster, writes not only authoritatively and informatively about the subject, but often in a way that is provocative, controversial, and amusing. It is a collection that will interest the lawyer with medico-legal interests, and the doctor who wants to know more about the rights, duties, and liabilities of his profession, the student of law or medicine, and the layperson who follows developments in this scientifically complex and morally contentious area of law.

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Author:   Ian Kennedy (Professor of Medical Law and Ethics, Professor of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.716kg
ISBN:  

9780198255581

ISBN 10:   0198255586
Pages:   446
Publication Date:   19 September 1991
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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.

Reviews

<br> It is a delight to read such a scholarly, well-written, and important presentation of very difficult concepts in medical ethics and medical law. This book is highly recommended to serious students of medical jurisprudence and to practitioners who wish to practice medicine with the highest regard for the concern and interest of their patients. --The New England Journal of Medicine<p><br> Challenging. . . .Here is a book for the thinker, for the teacher of ethics. . . Practice Update<p><br>

<br> It is a delight to read such a scholarly, well-written, and important presentation of very difficult concepts in medical ethics and medical law. This book is highly recommended to serious students of medical jurisprudence and to practitioners who wish to practice medicine with the highest regard for the concern and interest of their patients. --The New England Journal of Medicine<br> Challenging. . . .Here is a book for the thinker, for the teacher of ethics. . . Practice Update<br>

It is a delight to read such a scholarly, well-written, and important presentation of very difficult concepts in medical ethics and medical law. This book is highly recommended to serious students of medical jurisprudence and to practitioners who wish to practice medicine with the highest regard for the concern and interest of their patients. --The New England Journal of Medicine Challenging. . . .Here is a book for the thinker, for the teacher of ethics. . . Practice Update

It is a delight to read such a scholarly, well-written, and important presentation of very difficult concepts in medical ethics and medical law. This book is highly recommended to serious students of medical jurisprudence and to practitioners who wish to practice medicine with the highest regard for the concern and interest of their patients. --The New England Journal of Medicine<br> Challenging. . . .Here is a book for the thinker, for the teacher of ethics. . . Practice Update<br>

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