Text Cases & Materials on Medical Law & Ethics presents a valuable collection of materials relating to this topical & increasingly controversial area of the law. Comprising extracts from statutes cases & scholarly articles alongside expert author commentary & guidance Medical Law & Ethics signposts students to all the key issues & principles in medical law. Divided into two parts the text concentrates on the general principles that permeate medical law before considering the issues which arise in relation to individual areas of medical treatment. Fully revised & updated this new edition covers ethics more comprehensively &
Includes:: much-enhanced theoretical treatment. This fourth edition has been fully updated to take account of recent developments in the law particularly in the areas of assisted reproduction euthanasia cloning & stem cell research. For the first time Medical Law & Ethics also incorporates a number of helpful pedagogic innovations including bulleted summaries questions for thought & further reading lists for each chapter making it an ideal student companion to this popular subject.