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Contemporary Issues in Healthcare Law and Ethics»rank: 1618807by: Austen Garwood-Gowers, John Tingle, Kay Wheat
: :This book is designed to provide healthcare professionals with information on current issues in healthcare law and ethics. Key topics include: the social creation of health law and healthcare; access to healthcare and control of its quality (including the prevention of health crime, as well as civil control); genetics and disability at the beginning of life; vaccination and medical research during life; euthanasia at the end of life and the exercise, control and use of body parts after life. * Covers the most current and controversial issues in healthcare law * Makes complex legal arguments accessible to the more general reader |
Medical Law (Sourcebook)»rank: 4079866by: Stauch, Mark Stauch, Kay Wheat, John Tingle
: :This book draws together a wide range of material, including extracts from statutes, cases and academic commentaries, and presents this in a lucid and logical form. It is divided into two parts; the first looks at the general principles that permeate medical law, and features chapters on illness and the ethics of care, health care in England and Wales, consent to treatment, confidentiality, and medical malpractice. The second part considers the additional issues which arise in relation to specific areas of medical treatment, including infertility treatment and surrogacy, pregnancy and abortion, treating the incompetent, the mentally ill, medical research, organ transplants, and euthanasia. |
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Napier and Wheat's Recovering Damages for Psychiatric Injury»rank: 3660590by: Kay Wheat
: :The past decade has seen major developments in the law regarding personal injury claims which relate to psychiatric injury. The law is complex and in many respects illogical, and claims for damages for psychiatric conditions can be difficult to pursue. Now in its second edition, and substantially rewritten, Napier and Wheat's Recovering Damages for Psychiatric Injury reviews the legal context in which such claims must be framed. The book concentrates on claims made in negligence and employers' liability, but also examines claims made in contract and in intentional torts. Claims are divided up into the so-called 'shock' cases and non-shock cases, and the author has also included a new chapter on employers' ... |
Recovering Damages for Psychiatric Injury»rank: 5575320by: Michael Napier, Kay Wheat
: :The past few years have seen major developments in the law regarding personal injury claims which relate to psychiatric injury. A number of significant cases have recently brought the issues of compensation for psychiatric injury into sharper focus. This book surveys the current state of the law, including an analysis of the 'Alcock' case, and an examination of the ways in which a successful claim may be made. It also includes an overview of the major psychiatric conditions which may result from trauma, with particular emphasis on post- traumatic stress disorder.;The authors give practical advice on how to identify a potential psychiatric injury case, practical and procedural steps, and a survey of ... |
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Regulating Healthcare Quality: Legal and Professional Issues»rank: 4131780by: John Tingle, Charles Foster, Kay Wheat
: :The key focus of this edited U.K. text is on the legal and professional conflicts and issues that can arise from regulating health care quality. Doctors and nurses all increasingly face a number of dilemmas with regulating health quality issues such as increasing levels of complaints and litigation, scarcity of resources, under-staffing, professional discipline, clinical governance, clinical risk management, etc. This U.K. book spells out and discusses these issues, taking an academic approach, though this will be tempered with a practical focus on issues.Discusses ethical approaches to regulating health care qualityExamines health care rights in the UKLooks at complaints procedures in the new NHSPresents alternatives to the present clinical negligence systemCompares health ... |
Sourcebook on Medical Law (Sourcebook)»rank: 4680104by: Marc Stauch, Kay Wheat, John Tingle
: :The key focus of this edited U.K. text is on the legal and professional conflicts and issues that can arise from regulating health care quality. Doctors and nurses all increasingly face a number of dilemmas with regulating health quality issues such as increasing levels of complaints and litigation, scarcity of resources, under-staffing, professional discipline, clinical governance, clinical risk management, etc. This U.K. book spells out and discusses these issues, taking an academic approach, though this will be tempered with a practical focus on issues.Discusses ethical approaches to regulating health care qualityExamines health care rights in the UKLooks at complaints procedures in the new NHSPresents alternatives to the present clinical negligence systemCompares health ... |