First Do No Harm: Law, Ethics and Healthcare

Forsideomslag
Sheila A. M. McLean
Routledge, 15. apr. 2016 - 624 sider
This collection brings together essays from leading figures in the field of medical law and ethics which address the key issues currently challenging scholars in the field. It has also been compiled as a lasting testimony to the work of one of the most eminent scholars in the area, Professor Ken Mason. The collection marks the academic crowning of a career which has laid one of the foundation stones of an entire discipline. The wide-ranging contents and the standing of the contributors mean that the volume will be an invaluable resource for anyone studying or working in medical law or medical ethics.

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Cases and Casuistry
Hippocratic and Democratic Ideals
A New Paradigm for Global Health
From Ethics to
Ethical and Policy Issues Related to Medical Error and Patient Safety
What Place for the Public Good?
Reflections on the Rise and Rise of Patient Choice
Sayonara Sub Silentio Sidaway?
Informed Consent to Medical Treatment and the Impotence of Tort
Some Problems Concerning the Dead and
No More Shock Horror? The Declining Significance of Sudden Shock and
Is There a Right Not to Procreate?
A Shield or a Sword?
The Case for Decriminalising
Whats Love Got to Do With It? Regulating Reproductive Technologies

Conceptualising Privacy in Relation to Medical Research Values
Why Patients Participate in Clinical Trials
Humans as Medicines
Safeguarding Altruism and Trust
Law Reform Clinical Research and Adults without Mental Capacity Much
Continuing Conundrums in Competency
Saviour Siblings
Some
LifeProlonging Treatment and Patients Legal Rights
Euthanasia as a Human Right
Defending the Council of Europes Opposition to Euthanasia
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Om forfatteren (2016)

Professor McLean is the first holder of the International Bar Association Chair of Law and Ethics in Medicine at Glasgow University and is Director of the Institute of Law and Ethics in Medicine at Glasgow University.

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