Law, Ethics and Medicine: Studies in Medical Law by P.D.G. Skegg
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Law, Ethics and Medicine
Law, Ethics and Medicine
Summary
In this paperback edition the author has taken the opportunity to update the text in areas where developments have affected the law. There is a discussion of abortion cases, an analysis of the "Gillick" and "Sidaway" cases on consent, and an overview of changes in the law since 1985.
Law, Ethics and Medicine Summary
Table of Contents
Part 1 The beginning of life: lawful abortion and the protection of life. Part 2 During life: general capacity to consent to medical procedures; individual capacity to consent to medical procedures; consent to medical procedures; medical procedures performed without consent. Part 3 The end of life: drugs hastening death; allowing to die; the termination of artificial ventilation; death. Part 4 After life: the use of corpses for therapeutic purposes.
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GOR001587074
9780198256427
0198256426
Law, Ethics and Medicine: Studies in Medical Law by P.D.G. Skegg
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
1988-11-30
288
N/A
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