Medical Law and Ethics 7th ed

Winner of the Minty Medico-Legal Society Prize for Medico-Legal Textbooks, this acclaimed textbook by a leading expert in the field provides an authoritative and accessible exploration of medical law and ethics, essential for anyone navigating this challenging and ever-evolving area of study.

Key points:

• Covers the major topics including: Resources, Negligence and Patient Information; Consent; Reproductive Medicine; Research; Transplantation; and The End of Life.
• Combines detailed legal description and analysis with moral theory and philosophy.
• Considers the wider contextual pressures facing the law such as the impact of patient consumerism, the changing perceptions of medicine, and the impact of increasingly direct (international and domestic) recognition of human rights.
• Includes reference to international instruments and the laws of other jurisdictions enabling students to compare with domestic law.
• Summary boxes throughout each chapter highlight key points and aid revision.
• Further Reading at the end of each Chapter, and a detailed Bibliography, assist with wider reading and research.

New for the seventh edition:

• Major recent structural reforms to the NHS.
• Expression of the capacity test in the form specified by the Supreme Court in A Local Authority v JB.
• The Law Commissions’ report on surrogacy.
• Detailed discussion of heritable genome editing.
• Pending amendments to the 2004 Clinical Trials Regulations.
• The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
• New cases and decisions including Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; McCulloch v Forth Valley Health Board; Khan v Meadows; Bell v Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and E v Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.

Medical Law and Ethics is an ideal textbook for undergraduate law students, those studying at postgraduate level and researchers. The text will also provide a useful supplementary reader to students studying Philosophy, Ethics and Medicine.