Law and medical ethics / J.K. Mason; R.A. McCall Smith
Imprint
London : Butterworths, c1991
Edition
3rd ed
Descript
xxvi, 464 p. ; 22 cm
CONTENT
Evolution of medical ethics -- A reform of sex law? -- The Management of infertility and childlessness -- The Control of fertility -- Abortion -- Penatalscreening and wrongful life -- Neonaticide and selective non-treatment of the newborn -- Medical confidentiality -- Medical negligence -- Consent to treatment -- Health resources and dilemmas in treatment -- Treatment of the aged -- The Diagnosis of death -- Euthanasia -- Biomedical human research and experimentation -- Research on children and fetal experimentaton -- Human rihgts, psychiatry and the law -- Psychiatry and the criminal law