Health law in Australia / [edited by] Ben P White, Fiona McDonald, Lindy Willmott, Shih-ning Then
- Bib ID:
- 10021648
- Format:
- Book
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Description:
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- Pyrmont, NSW : Lawbook Co., Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia, 2024
- ©2024
- lxxxix, 978 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780455247311 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"Health Law in Australia is Australia's leading text in this area and was the first book to deal with health law on a comprehensive national basis. In this important field that continues to give rise to challenges for society, the book takes a logical, structured approach to explain the breadth of this area of law across all Australian jurisdictions. By covering all the major areas in this diverse field, Health Law in Australia enhances the understanding of the discipline as a whole. The book begins by situating health law in its wider context with chapters on medical ethics, human rights and how the health system as a whole is regulated. It then explores the general principles of health law, including chapters on 'Negligence', 'Children and Consent to Medical Treatment', and 'Medical Confidentiality and Patient Privacy'. The book goes on to consider beginning-of-life and end-of-life issues, before concluding with chapters on emerging areas in health law, such as medical research, genetic technologies and biotechnology"--.
- Full contents:
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- Chapter 1. Health Law: Scope, Sources and Forces
- Chapter 2. Medical and health ethics and Law
- Chapter 3. The Legal Framework of the Australian Health System
- Chapter 4. Human Rights and Health Law
- Chapter 5. General Principles of Consent to Medical Treatment
- Chapter 6. Children and Consent to Medical Treatment
- Chapter 7. Adults Who Lack Capacity: Substitute Decision-Making
- Chapter 8. Negligence
- Chapter 9. Privacy and Confidentiality in Health Care
- Chapter 10. Assisted Reproductive Technology
- Chapter 11. Abortion
- Chapter 12. Surrogacy
- Chapter 13. Voluntary Assisted Dying
- Chapter 14. Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment
- Chapter 15. The Doctrine of Double Effect
- Chapter 16. Regulation of Health Professional and Health Workers
- Chapter 17. Public Health Law
- Chapter 18. Mental Health Law
- Chapter 19. Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation
- Chapter 20. Health and Medical Research
- Chapter 21. Regulation of Genetic Testing.
- Notes:
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- Previous edition: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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