Medical Ethics and Law - A curriculum for the 21st Century

Preceded by Medical law and ethics / Jonathan Herring. 2nd ed. 2008.

List of contents

Part 1: Foundations
1. Reasoning about ethics.
2. Ethical theories and perspectives.
3. Three core concepts in medical ethics - best interests, autonomy and rights.
4. An introduction to law.
5. Doctors and patients: relationships and responsibilities.
Part 2: Core topics
6. Consent
7. Capacity
8. Mental Health
9. Confidentiality
10. Resource allocation
11. Children and young people
12. Disability and disease
13. Reproductive medicine
14. End of Life
15. Organ transplantation and definitions of death
16. Medical Research and audit
Part 3: Extensions
17. Neuroethics
18. Genethics
19. Information ethics
20. Public health ethics

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan (Professor of Law and Vice Dean Herring, Herring Jonathan, Julian Savulescu, Savulescu Julian, Dominic Wilkinson
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Released: 13.09.2019
• EAN: 9780702075964
• ISBN: 978-0-7020-7596-4
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 570 g
• Illustrations: Illustrated, Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Internal Medicine, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct