Law Express: Medical Law is designed to help you to relate all the reading and study throughout your course specifically to exam and assignment situations. Understand quickly what is required, organise your revision, and learn the key points with ease, to get the grades you need. Tested with examiners and students.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Guided tour
Guided tour of the companion website
Table of cases and statutes
Chapter 1: Basic principles of medical law and ethics
Chapter 2: Rationing
Chapter 3: Consent to treatment
Chapter 4: Confidentiality
Chapter 5: Medical negligence
Chapter 6: Contraception, abortion and pregnancy
Chapter 7: Reproduction
Chapter 8: Organ donation and ownership of body parts
Chapter 9: Death and dying
Chapter 10: Mental health law
Chapter 11: Medical research
And finally, before the exam ...
Glossary of terms
Index