Lecture Notes: Medical Law and Ethics Philip Howard (Epson and St Helier University Hospital NHS Trust and St George's Hospital medical School)
Lecture Notes: Medical Law and Ethics provides students, junior doctors, general practitioners and allied health professionals with the legal framework related to medicine and discusses the ethics involved with these issues. The content is divided into: sources of medical law and ethics consent, confidentiality and clinical negligence, mental health issues - describing the law and discussing the ethics in relation to abortion, reproductive technology, surrogacy and end of life issues, maintaining professional standards, and doctors' rights.In addition the appendix provides further information and guidance including: philosophers who have influenced medical ethics, further reading, how to access legal reference material, cases statutes, and lecture notes. Pre-publication review - The content of this book seems ideal as a recommended text for any course...Reading this work would undoubtedly be beneficial for future careers - PRHO, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough.