Medicine, Patients & the Law - Hardcover

Brazier, Margaret; Cave, Emma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405726024 ISBN 13: 9781405726023

Publisher: Butterworths Law, 2007

Synopsis

In the extensively revised and updated fourth edition of this highly acclaimed textbook, Margaret Brazier and Emma Cave examine the regulation of medicine, the rights of patients and responsibilities of doctors and legal remedies. The book covers a diverse range of fields from research on embryos to clinical negligence, cloning to euthanasia. The text charts recent developments in the law including reform of the General Medical Council, legislation such as the Human Tissue Act 2004, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the NHS Redress Act 2006 and proposals to reform the law. The clear and concise style makes the book accessible to legal professionals as well as to students, medical practitioners and the lay person.

About this title

Review:

Excellent ... a searching critique of modern medical law (New Law Journal)

The legal issues are explained extremely clearly; and intelligible reference is made to the most important decisions of the courts (The Times Higher Education Supplement)

About the Author:

Margaret Brazier has been a Professor of Law at the University of Manchester since 1990. She has written widely on medical law and ethics. She chaired a review of laws relating to surrogacy from 1996-1998 and chaired the Retained Organs Commission from 2001-2004. She is the Editor of the Medical Law Review.

Dr Emma Cave is a lecturer in tort and medical law at the University of Leeds. Her research interests include ethics and legal and ethical issues in reproductive medicine and she is author of The Mother of all Crimes, published by Ashgate in 2004.

About this edition

• Publisher: Butterworths Law
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1405726024
• ISBN 13: 9781405726023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 541