Evolve Resources for Law and Ethics for Health Practitioners, 1st Edition

Section 1: Introduction to Law and Ethics for Health Practitioners 1. Introduction to the Australian legal system 2. Introduction to the Australian health system 3. Introduction to ethics and ethical decision making

Section 2: Professional Regulation and Key Concepts Relevant to Health Care Delivery 4. Professional regulation of health practitioners 5. Management of health information 6. Negligence 7. Intentional Torts 8. Criminal Law and Issues related to Health Care

Section 3: Matters of Life and Death 9. Registration of Births and Deaths and the Coroners Court 10. Abortion, Wrongful Birth, Wrongful Life and Pre-Natal Injury 11. Assisted Reproduction and Surrogacy 12. Advance care planning and the withholding and withdrawal of treatment

Section 4: Further Practice Considerations 13. The removal and donation of human blood, tissue and organs 14. The regulation of drugs and poisons 15. Mental health legislation 16. Child and elder abuse

Section 5: Law and Ethics in Action 17. Working with legal representatives 18. Case studies: Guided application of legal and ethical prinicples

Sonia Allan, OAM CF, LLB (Hons), BA(Hons), MPH (Merit), LLM (Dist), PhD, GDLP GCHE, Professor of Law, School of Law, University of New England, NSW, Australia