Principles of Medical Law

by Judith Laing (Editor), Jean McHale (Editor), Ian Kennedy (Editor), Andrew Grubb (Editor)

Overview

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 indispensable research tool for practitioners and academics alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191046391
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	04/06/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1320
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Dr Judith Laing is a Reader in the School of Law at the University of Bristol. She has published extensively in a number of peer-reviewed journals and edited collections on aspects of mental health, medical law, and criminal law and justice. As well as being involved with previous editions of Principles of Medical Law, her books include Care or Custody? Mentally Disordered Offenders in the Criminal Justice System (OUP, 1999) and Criminal Justice, Mental Health and the Politics of Risk (edited with Gray&Noaks; Routledge, 2001). Judith is a member of the Editorial Board of the Medical Law Review and Journal of Medical Law and Ethics, and she has previously held editorial positions with the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law and the Journal of Law and Society. Jean V. McHale is Professor of Health Care Law and Director of the Centre for Health Law, Science&Policy at the University of Birmingham. Her books include Medical Confidentiality and Legal Privilege (Routledge, 1993); Health Care Law: Texts, Cases and Materials (with Fox) (2nd ed. 2007, Sweet and Maxwell); Law and Nursing (3rd ed. with Tingle, Butterworths, Heinmann, 2007); Principles of Mental Health Law (edited with Bartlett, Gostin, Fennell, and McKay) (OUP, 2010); Routledge Handbook on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (edited with Gale) (Routledge, 2015); and European Health Law: Themes and Implications (with Hervey) (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Table of Contents

Part 1. The health care system
1. Keith Syrett: The organisation of health care
2. Paula Case: Regulating health care professions
Part 2. Clinical negligence
3. Rachel Mulheron: Duties in contract and tort
4. Philippa Whipple QC and Philip Havers QC: 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. Jean McHale: Consent to treatment: the competent patient
9. Neil Allen and Sir James Munby: The test for capacity
10. Neil Allen and Sir James Munby: Consent to treatment: patients lacking capacity and children
11. Judith Laing and Nicola Glover-Thomas: Mental health law
12. Mark Taylor: 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: The regulation of medicinal products and medical devices
18. Richard Goldberg: Products liability
Part 6. Regulating human material
19. Jean McHale: The legal regulation of the use of human material
20. Amanda Warren-Jones: Patenting and the human body
Part 7. The end of life
21. Jonathan Herring: Ending life
22. Murray Earle: Death

Editorial Reviews

"Across almost 1,300 pages, seven parts and twenty-two articles, the book offers detailed analysis and commentary on a formidably broad range of other issues, from the organisation and regulation of health care, to actions arising from birth, to consent to treatment, to the regulation of medicinal products and medical devices - and of course, much more. Here is a field fraught with uncertainties and these too are dealt with in a measured, frank and analytical manner." - Phillip Taylor MBE, The Barrister

"It is a tribute to the merits of this book that one, while consulting it regularly, scarcely noticed that six years had lapsed since its first arrival... This book remains a monumental work, comprehensive in its coverage and apparently seamless in its presentation, thanks to skilful editing... For anyone wishing to gain a sound academic understanding of medical law, this remains the work to turn to." - B Mahendra, New Law Journal

"This latest text is useful to the Practitioner because it considers in depth difficult issues... the layout is clear with separate parts, chapters and paragraphs for ease of reference. There is a wealth of footnotes and a comprehensive table of cases and statutes with an excellent index. The test of any substantial law text such as this is whether it becomes a leading work in the subject. This seems assured for Principles of Medical Law." - Jarlath Spellman, Barrister, The Bar Review

"An outstanding piece of scholarship ... high in quality throughout, well internally cross-referenced and very well written ... By some distance it is the best textbook in the area." - Journal of Law and Medicine

"This authoritative and detailed reference work will be an invaluable resource to practitioners, academics, and students alike." - European Journal of Health Care Law

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