cover image - Medical Ethics and Law, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780702075964
Copyright: 2020
Publication Date: 09-25-2019
Page Count: 374
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $39.99

Medical Ethics and Law, 3rd Edition

by Dominic Wilkinson, MBBS BMedSci MBioeth DPhil FRACP FRCPCH, Jonathan Herring and Julian Savulescu, BMedSci, MBBS, MA, PhD

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cover image - Medical Ethics and Law, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780702075964
Copyright: 2020
Publication Date: 09-25-2019
Page Count: 374
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $39.99
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    • The first part of the book covers the foundations of ethics and law in the context of medicine.

    • The second part covers specific core topics that are essential for health professionals to understand.

    • The third section of the book includes new chapters on cutting edge topics that will be crucial for the doctors and health professionals of tomorrow.
    • This new edition includes a new third section that provides an extension to the core curriculum focused on four key emerging topics in medical ethics – neuroethics, genethics, information ethics and public health ethics.

    • The chapters on Consent, Capacity and Mental Health Law have been extensively revised to reflect changes in legislation. Chapters on confidentiality and information ethics contain new sections relating to information technology, sharing information and breaching confidentiality.

    • Each chapter contains case examples drawn from personal experience or from the media.

    • This edition also includes cartoons to highlight cutting edge and topical issues.

    • Most chapters include revision questions and an extension case to encourage readers who are interested in a topic to explore further.

  • Part 1: Foundations

    1. Reasoning about ethics.

    2. Ethical theories and perspectives.

    3. Three core concepts in medical ethics - best interests, autonomy and rights.

    4. An introduction to law.

    5. Doctors and patients: relationships and responsibilities.

    Part 2: Core topics

    6. Consent

    7. Capacity

    8. Mental Health

    9. Confidentiality

    10. Resource allocation

    11. Children and young people

    12. Disability and disease

    13. Reproductive medicine

    14. End of Life

    15. Organ transplantation and definitions of death

    16. Medical Research and audit

    Part 3: Extensions

    17. Neuroethics

    18. Genethics

    19. Information ethics

    20. Public health ethics

  • Dominic Wilkinson, MBBS BMedSci MBioeth DPhil FRACP FRCPCH, Professor of Medical Ethics, Director of Medical Ethics, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics; Consultant Neonatologist, John Radcliffe Hospital; Senior Research Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford., Jonathan Herring, Professor of Law and Vice Dean, Faculty of Law, Oxford University, UK and Julian Savulescu, BMedSci, MBBS, MA, PhD, Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics and Director, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Visiting Professorial Fellow in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting International Professorship in Law, University of Melbourne, Australia
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