ABSTRACT

This book is to help you understand the main ethical and legal details you need to know in order to practice medicine safely and well. Medical ethics is an inherently fascinating subject, and throws up new issues every day. Good ethical thinking requires practice and application and there are essentials that are easy to grasp and learn quickly - this book will show you how. It contains short summaries, with examples, and guidance on your legal position, of a series of core topics of medical ethics and law. Its aim is to give you some guides to effective, safe and good clinical practice.

chapter 2|8 pages

Consent

chapter 3|10 pages

Confidentiality

chapter 4|10 pages

Children, medicine and law

chapter 5|10 pages

Mental health

chapter 6|18 pages

Life and death, dying and killing

chapter 7|16 pages

Human reproduction

chapter 8|14 pages

The GMC, complaints and whistleblowing

chapter 9|16 pages

Medical research

chapter 10|10 pages

Rationing and resources

chapter 11|8 pages

Healthcare rights

chapter 12|10 pages

The new genetics