Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethics and Law PDF

Part 1 Ethics
1 Introduction to ethics 3
2 The virtuous doctor 9
3 Consequentialism 15
4 Deontology 21
5 The four principles 29
6 Care ethics 43
7 Moral relativism and subjectivism 49
8 Critical reasoning 55
Part 2 Law
9 Introduction to the legal system 67
10 Key articles of law 75
11 Court 83
12 Law within medical practice 91
13 Negligence 97
14 Other issues of liability 109
Part 3 Generic legal and ethical issues
15 Resource allocation 119
16 Candour and confidentiality 131
17 Issues in the doctor– patient relationship 147
18 Issues in death and dying 177
19 Doctors and the General Medical Council (GMC) 201
20 Medical research 211
21 Medical education 219
Part 4 Ethico- legal issues by medical
specialism
229 22 Ethico- legal issues by medical specialism A– M
261 23 Ethico- legal issues by medical specialism N– V
Part 5 Statutory provisions
283 24 Abortion Act 1967
287 25 Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003
289 26 Gender Recognition Act 2004
291 27 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990
299 28 Human Rights Act 1998 (European
Convention on Human Rights)
307 29 Human Tissue Act 2004
323 30 Mental Capacity Act 2005
339 31 Mental Health Act 1983
349 32 Suicide Act 1961
351 33 Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985
Index 357
Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethics and Law PDF Ebook

Anna Smajdor is Associate Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Oslo. She has written on a wide variety of ethical issues in relation to medicine. From 2008 – 2016 she was lecturer in Medical Ethics at Norwich Medical School. She has many years’ experience of serving on clinical ethics committees, and has worked as an ethics consultant for Norwich Community Health and Care NHS Trust.
Her books include: From IVF to Immortality: Controversy in the Era of Reproductive Technology (with Ruth Deech, OUP 2007).

Jonathan Herring is DW Wolfe-Clarendon Fellow in Law at Exeter College, Oxford University and Professor of Law at the Law Faculty, Oxford University. He has written on family law, medical law, criminal law and legal issues surrounding care and vulnerability. His books include: Medical Law and Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2020), 8th ed; Criminal Law: Text, Cases and Materials 10th ed (Oxford University Press, 2020); Law and the Relational Self Cambridge University Press, 2019); Family
Law 10th ed (Pearson, 2021); Vulnerable Adults and the Law (Oxford University Press, 2016); Caring and the Law (Hart, 2013); Older People in Law and Society (Oxford University Press 2009).

Robert Wheeler has been a Consultant Paediatric & Neonatal Surgeon in Southampton since 1994. His main surgical interest is in paediatric oncology, chairing the Surgical Section of the national Children’s Cancer & Leukaemia Group (CCLG) until 2011. He a particular interest in the technicalities of tumour dissection. Mr Wheeler is an Intercollegiate Examiner in paediatric surgery, and a member of the Invited Review Mechanism of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Mr Wheeler is also an academic lawyer, specialising in clinical law, perhaps coining that phrase. An Honorary Senior lecturer at the University of Southampton since 2009, he in 2013 became the Director of the Department of Clinical Law at University Hospitals of Southampton, the first such department in the NHS: