Medical Ethics Today The BMA's Handbook of Ethics and Law [Hardcover]

This is your source for authoritative and comprehensive guidance from the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Ethics Department covering both routine and highly contentious medico-legal issues faced by health care professionals. The new edition updates the information from both the legal and ethical perspectives and reflects developments surrounding The Mental Capacity Act, Human Tissue Act, and revision of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act.List of statues and regulations.

List of cases.

Where to find legal cases online.

Medical Ethics Committee.

Acknowledgements.

Preface to the third edition.

Introduction: Bridging the gap between theory and practice: the BMA’s approach to medical ethics.

1: The doctor-patient relationship.

2: Consent, choice and refusal: adults with capacity.

3: Treating adults who lack capacity.

4: Children and young people.

5: Confidentiality.

6: Health records.

7: Contraception, abortion, and birth.

8: Assisted reproduction.

9: Genetics.

10: Caring for patients at the end of life.

11: Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide.

12: Responsibilities after a patient’s death.

13: Prescribing and administering medication.

Chapter 14: Research and innovativelª