Treat Me Right: Essays in Medical Law and Ethics

by Ian Kennedy

Overview

Controversial and amusing, this collection of Kennedy's writings illuminates the rights, duties, and liabilities of doctors as well as other aspects of medical law and ethics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198255581
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/07/1991
Series:	Clarendon Paperbacks
Pages:	446
Product dimensions:	6.19(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.01(d)

About the Author

King's College London

Table of Contents

1.	Emerging Problems of Medicine, Technology, and the Law	1
2.	What is a Medical Decision?	19
3.	The Legal and Ethical Implications of Postcoital Birth Control	32
4.	A Husband, a Wife, and an Abortion	42
5.	The Doctor, the Pill, and the 15-year-old Girl	52
6.	The Moral Status of the Embryo	119
7.	Ethics in Clinical Decision Making: The Care of the Very-low-birth-weight Baby	140
8.	R. v. Arthur, Re B., and the Severely Disabled New-born Baby	154
9.	The Patient on the Clapham Omnibus	175
10.	The Law and Ethics of Informed Consent and Randomized Controlled Trials	213
11.	Further Thoughts on Liability for Non-observance of the Provisions of the Human Tissue Act 1961	225
12.	The Donation and Transplantation of Kidneys: Should the Law be Changed?	237
13.	Transsexualism and Single-Sex Marriage	257
14.	The Technological Imperative and its Application in Health Care	287
15.	The Check-out: A Humane Death?	300
16.	The Law Relating to the Treatment of the Terminally Ill	315
17.	The Legal Effect of Requests by the Terminally Ill and Aged not to Receive Further Treatment from Doctors	331
18.	Switching Off Life-Support Machines: The Legal Implications	349
19.	The Woman and her Unborn Child	364
20.	Patients, Doctors, and Human Rights	385
	Bibliography	415
	Index	423

Editorial Reviews

"It is a delight to read such a scholarly, well-written, and important presentation of very difficult concepts in medical ethics and medical law. This book is highly recommended to serious students of medical jurisprudence and to practitioners who wish to practice medicine with the highest regard for the concern and interest of their patients."—The New England Journal of Medicine

"Challenging. . . .Here is a book for the thinker, for the teacher of ethics. . ." Practice Update

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