Medicolegal Essentials in Healthcare

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2nd edition
Edited by Jason Payne-James, Ian Wall, Peter Dean

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: January 2010
Print publication year:: 2004
Online ISBN:: 9780511545559
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511545559

Subjects:: Medicine, Medical Law, Ethics and forensic Medicine

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Medicolegal Essentials in Healthcare provides a concise overview of the most clinically relevant medicolegal issues for healthcare groups in England and Wales, and is a valuable resource for medical, dental and nursing students in training as well as being a useful quick reference for practitioners in these fields. Each chapter is written by a leading expert on the subject, and as such provides up-to-date, concise, and comprehensive coverage, identifying key areas of controversy and enabling readers to put contemporary medicolegal issues into their appropriate clinical context. Key features include:Focuses on issues of immediate relevance to healthcare professionalsChapters written by leading experts in the fieldA knowledge of medicolegal issues is of increasing importance to all healthcare professionals, as society generally becomes more litigious, and practitioners face the threat of legal claims against them

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Contributors
pp vii-x

Editors' note for the first edition
pp xi-xii

Editors' note for the second edition
pp xiii-xiv

Foreword
pp xv-xvi

Table of statutes
pp xvii-xviii

Table of cases
pp xix-xxii

1 - Legal institutions and the legal process
pp 1-10

2 - Human rights and healthcare professionals
pp 11-20

3 - Medical ethics and the forensic physician
pp 21-28

4 - Confidentiality
pp 29-38

5 - Consent to medical treatment
pp 39-50

6 - Professional bodies and discipline
pp 51-70

7 - Complaints in the National Health Service
pp 71-82

8 - The Mental Health Act (England and Wales)
pp 83-94

9 - Death certification and the role of the coroner
pp 95-104

10 - Tissues and organs
pp 105-116

11 - Organ donation
pp 117-126

12 - Living wills
pp 127-138

13 - Euthanasia and end-of-life decision-making
pp 139-148

14 - Abortion and reproductive health
pp 149-158

15 - The Children Act 1989
pp 159-166

16 - Clinical negligence
pp 167-178

17 - Legislation for medicines and product liability
pp 179-192

18 - Clinical trials: ethical, legal and practical considerations
pp 193-202

19 - Medicolegal implications of blood-borne viruses
pp 203-232

20 - Healthcare professionals in court – professional and expert witnesses
pp 233-240

Index
pp 241-260

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