Routledge Handbook of Medical Law and EthicsYann Joly, Bartha Maria Knoppers This book explores the scope, application and role of medical law, regulatory norms and ethics, and addresses key challenges introduced by contemporary advances in biomedical research and healthcare. While mindful of national developments, the handbook supports a global perspective in its approach to medical law. Contributors include leading scholars in both medical law and ethics, who have developed specially commissioned pieces in order to present a critical overview and analysis of the current state of medical law and ethics. Each chapter offers comprehensive coverage of longstanding and traditional topics in medical law and ethics, and provides dynamic insights into contemporary and emerging issues in this heavily debated field. Topics covered include:
This advanced level reference work will prove invaluable to legal practitioners, scholars, students and researchers in the disciplines of law, medicine, genetics, dentistry, theology, and medical ethics. |
Contents
Privacy and confidentiality | |
Children | |
Disability | |
End of life | |
Regulating professional practice | |
Ehealth | |
Elke Sleurs Louiza Kalokairinou Heidi Carmen Howard and Pascal Borry | |
future directions in the genome | |
The ethical and legal duties of physicians in clinical genetics | |
the legal and ethical challenges | |
current and emergent legal and ethical issues in | |
The role of international organizations in promoting legal norms | |
The law and ethics of access to medicines in developing countries | |
current trends | |
Liability and the legal duty to inform in research | |
Emerging legal and ethical issues in reproductive technologies | |
approaches | |
Traditional complementary and alternative medicine | |
The domestication of stem cell tourism | |
Index | |
Other editions - View all
Routledge Handbook of Medical Law and Ethics Yann Joly,Bartha Maria Knoppers No preview available - 2016 |
Routledge Handbook of Medical Law and Ethics Yann Joly,Bartha Maria Knoppers No preview available - 2015 |