Principles of Medical Law - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198732511 ISBN 13: 9780198732518

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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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).

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0198732511
• ISBN 13: 9780198732518
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 1344
• Editor: Laing Judith, McHale Jean, Kennedy Sir Ian, Grubb Andrew