Routledge Handbook of Medical Law and Ethics

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Yann Joly, Bartha Maria Knoppers
Routledge, Sep 19, 2014 - Law - 492 pages

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:

  • Bioethics, health and human rights
  • Medical liability
  • Law and emerging health technologies
  • Public health law
  • Personalized medicine
  • The law and ethics of access to medicines in developing countries
  • Medical research in the genome era
  • Emerging legal and ethical issues in reproductive technologies

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

Contributors
Rights of persons
Bioethics health law and human rights
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
Copyright

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About the author (2014)

Yann Joly is a Lawyer and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University, Canada as well as a research fellow from the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec and a researcher at the Centre de recherche en droit public at the University of Montreal.

Bartha Maria Knoppers holds the Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine. She is Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy, Faculty of Medicine at McGill University, Canada.

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