Unlocking Medical Law and Ethics

Summary:
The Unlocking the Law series is designed specifically to make the law accessible. Each chapter opens with a list of aims and objectives, contains activities such as quick quizzes and self-test questions, key facts charts to consolidate your knowledge, diagrams to aid learning and numerous headings and sub-headings to make the subject manageable. Cases and judgments are prominently displayed, as are primary source quotations. New features include: summaries to check your understanding of each chapter, a glossary of legal terminology and essay questions with answer plans. All titles in the series follow the same formula and include the same features so students can move easily from one subject to another. The series covers all the core subjects required by the Bar Council and the Law Society for entry onto professional qualifications as well as popular option units.

The website www.hodderplus.co.uk/law provides free resources such as multiple choice questions and updates in law.

• This text's pedagogic approach sets this book apart from the literature by helping the student to engage with complex and detailed legal concepts
• The modern, attractive layout enhances the visual appeal of the text and thus the learning experience
• Numerous citations, quotations and extracts mean that students will be exposed to primary sources of legal language
• Cases and judgments are highlighted making them easy to find for cross-reference and revision
• Concepts and terms are explained clearly allowing for maximum accessibility and understanding
• www.unlockingthelaw.co.uk provides free interactive MCQs as well as updates to the law

Table of Contents:
Table of cases
Table of statutes and other instruments
1. Medical negligence
2. Consent
3. Mental health law
4. Resource allocation
5. Confidentiality
6. Ethical theories
7. Assisted conception
8. The law and ethics of abortion
9. Organ transplantation
10. End of life issues: assisted suicide
11. End-of-life decisions
Glossary of terms
Index

About the Author(s):
Claudia Carr, having gained considerable experience in Medical Negligence whilst in private practice and with a Masters degree in Health Care Law and Ethics, now lectures and leads the Medical Law module at the University of Hertfordshire.

Readership:
Undergraduate students taking electives on medical law and students of health sciences and allied professions.

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