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Principles of Medical Law, 4th Edition

Principles of Medical Law, 4th Edition

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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780198732518
  • Published In: March 2017
  • Format: Hardback
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    Principles of Medical Law is the leading practitioner text in its field. Now in its fourth edition, it provides a comprehensive and scholarly account of the common law and statutory provisions governing healthcare provision in England and Wales.

    It offers an authoritative and up-to-date account of medical law whilst also seeking to set the law in context and critique its application.

    The contributors include many of the leading academics and practitioners working in the area of medical law today, who together offer a balanced, reliable, and considered perspective. The clear layout, accessible writing style, extensive referencing, and detailed index make this an indispensible research tool for practitioners and academics alike.

    New to this Edition:-

    • Reform of the NHS in the Health and Social Care Act 2012
    • Developments in the Care Act 2014 and the duty of candour
    • Consideration of the implications of the new EU Clinical Trials Regulation
    • New cases including Supreme Court decisions in Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v James and Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board
    • Recent jurisprudence, including P v Cheshire West and developments relating to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Deprivation of Liberty safeguards
    • Major reform of the fitness to practice provisions concerning the General Medical Council
  • Contents:
    Part
    1.The health care system
    1: Christopher Newdick: The organisation of health care
    2: Mary O'Rourke and Jonathan Holl-Allen: Regulating health care professionals
    Part
    2. Clinical negligence
    3: Rachel Mulheron: Duties in contract and tort
    4: Philippa Whipple and Philip Havers: Breach of duty
    5: Stephen Todd: Actions arising from birth
    6: Richard Goldberg: Causation and defences
    7: Keith Syrett: Institutional liability
    Part
    3. Patients' Rights
    8: David Lock: Consent to treatment: the competent patient
    9: David Lock: The test for capacity
    10: Mr Justice James Munby: Consent to treatment- patients lacking capacity and children
    11: Judith Laing: Mental health law
    12: Shaun Pattinson and Deryck Beyleveld: Confidentiality and data protection
    13: Jean McHale: Clinical research
    Part
    4. The law and reproduction
    14: Michael Freeman: Medically assisted reproduction
    15: Michael Freeman: Reproductive genetics
    16: Emily Jackson: Abortion
    Part
    5. Medicinal products and devices
    17: Christopher Hodges: Regulating medicinal products and devices
    18: Harvey Teff: Products liability
    Part
    6. Regulating human material
    19: Jean McHale: The legal regulation of the use of human material
    20: Graeme Laurie: Patenting and the human body
    Part
    7. The end of life
    21: Jonathan Herring: Ending life
    22: J.K. Mason: Death
  • Edited by Andrew Grubb, Senior Immigration Judge, Judith Laing, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Bristol, and Jean McHale, Professor of Health Care Law and Director of the Institute of Medical Law, University of Birmingham

     

     

    Consultant Editor Professor Sir Ian Kennedy

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Contributors:
    Deryck Beyleveld
    Professor of Law and Bioethics, University of Durham

    Michael Freeman
    Professor of English law, University College London

    Richard Goldberg
    Reader in Law, University of Aberdeen

    Philip Havers QC
    Barrister, 1 Crown Office Row, London

    Dr. Jonathan Herring,
    Fellow of Exeter College, University of Oxford

    Christopher Hodges
    Head of CMS research programme in Civil Justice Systems, Centre for Socio-legal Studies, University of Oxford

    Jonathan Holl-Allen
    Barrister, 3 Serjeant's Inn, London

    Emily Jackson
    Professor of Law, London School of Economics

    Judith Laing
    Senior Lecturer in Law, School of Law, University of Bristol

    Graeme Laurie
    Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, University of Edinburgh

    David Lock
    Barrister, No 5 Chambers, Government Minister from 1999 to 2001

    Kenyon Mason
    Emeritus Professor of Forensic Medicine, University of Edinburgh

    Jean McHale
    Professor of Health Care Law and Director of the Institute of Medical Law, University of Birmingham

    Rachael Mulheron
    Professor of Law, Queen Mary University of London

    Sir James Munby
    A Lord Justice of Appeal

    Christopher Newdick
    Professor of Health Law, University of Reading

    Mary O'Rourke QC
    Barrister, 3 Serjeant's Inn, London

    Shaun Pattinson
    Reader in Law, University of Durham

    Keith Syrett
    Reader in Public Law and health Policy, University of Bristol

    Harvey Teff,
    Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Durham

    Stephen Todd
    Professor of Common Law, University of Nottingham

    Philippa Whipple QC
    Barrister, 1 Crown Office Row, London

  • "authoritative, detailed and scholarly... an essential purchase for any practitioner involved in any aspect of the law pertaining to healthcare." - Phillip taylor MBE and Elixabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers

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