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Legal and Ethical Aspects of Healthcare.
There can be few aspects of life which have not altered so dramatically in the past few decades as the relationship between medicine and the law: as each advance in medicine is made, and treatments become more and more sophisticated, the legal and moral issues surrounding such treatments have also m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Greenwich Medical Media,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; DEDICATION; PREFACE; A NOTE ON ABBREVIATIONS; 1 ABOUT MEDICINE AND THE LAW; LEGAL INTERVENTION IN MEDICINE; Divisions of the legal system; PROFESSIONAL DISCIPLINE; The General Medical Council; Controlling bodies for other healthcare professions; The Council for the Regulation of Healthcare Professionals; Statutory control of the healthcaring professions; THE DOCTOR AND THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; THE LEGAL SYSTEM IN PRACTICE; The courts in practice; And who pays for it?; CASES REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT; FURTHER READING.
- 2 RESOURCES
- WHO DECIDES?DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE; Health Authorities and Health Boards; OVERSEEING THE AUTHORITIES' DECISIONS; An American experiment; GOVERNANCE; AT THE COAL-FACE: THE PATIENT AND THE DOCTOR; CONCLUSION; CASES REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT; FURTHER READING; 3 THE CONFIDENTIAL RELATIONSHIP; MEDICAL ETHICS; CONFIDENTIALITY AND THE LAW; CONFIDENTIALITY AND THE HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONS; The patient consents; Sharing information within the healthcare team; Disclosure to insurance companies and employers; Disclosure in the patient's best interests; CONFIDENTIALITY AND THE CHILD.
- CONFIDENTIALITY WITHIN THE FAMILYTHE PATIENT IN DANGER; DISCLOSURE BEYOND THE HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT; Disclosure to the police; MEDICAL CONFIDENTIALITY AND THE LEGAL PROCESS; The public interest; THE PATIENT'S RIGHTS; CONCLUSION; CASES MENTIONED IN THE TEXT; FURTHER READING; 4 THE THERAPEUTIC PARTNERSHIP; THE COMPETENT ADULT PATIENT; Arguments against full disclosure; Arguments in favour of disclosure; PATIENT AUTONOMY, ETHICS AND THE LAW; How much information should have been disclosed?; What test is to be applied?; Proving harm; CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS; The mature minor.
- England and WalesScotland; THE INCOMPETENT ADULT; CONCLUSION; CASES REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT; FURTHER READING; 5 REFUSAL OF CONSENT; REFUSAL BASED ON PRINCIPLE; REFUSAL ON PERSONAL GROUNDS; REFUSAL IN THE COURSE OF PREGNANCY; REFUSAL OF FOOD; Hunger strikes; Anorexia nervosa; CHILDREN AND REFUSAL OF TREATMENT; England and Wales; Scotland; MENTAL DISABILITY AND REFUSAL OF TREATMENT; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; CONCLUSION; CASES REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT; FURTHER READING; 6 MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE; THE COMPLAINTS PROCEDURE; LITIGATION; Duty of care; Breach of duty; Causation; POLICY CONSIDERATIONS.
- WHO WILL BE SUED?CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE; ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS OF LIABILITY; Vaccine damage; Liability for defective products; CONCLUSIONS; CASES REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT; FURTHER READING; 7 USING PEOPLE FOR RESEARCH; THE DECLARATION OF HELSINKI; Consent; Research and the legally incompetent; THE NATURE OF RESEARCH; Non-therapeutic research; Therapeutic research; THE DESIGN OF RESEARCH; WHO CONTROLS RESEARCH?; WHAT HAPPENS IF HARM RESULTS FROM RESEARCH?; MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION; THE FUTURE; GENETIC SCREENING AND TESTING; GENE THERAPY; CONCLUSIONS; CASES REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT; FURTHER READING.