Medical Law | John Devereux | Taylor & Francis eBooks, Reference Works

ABSTRACT

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|2 pages

PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL LAW

chapter |34 pages

PART I: BIOETHICS

chapter |5 pages

Medicare

chapter |1 pages

State regulation of health care

chapter 2|1 pages

CONSENT TO TREATMENT I – BATTERY

chapter |57 pages

Express terms

chapter |1 pages

(b) South Australia

chapter |9 pages

Emergency Statute

chapter 3|1 pages

CONSENT TO TREATMENT II – NEGLIGENCE

chapter |3 pages

Existence and scope of a duty of care

chapter |31 pages

(a) When does the duty commence?

chapter |8 pages

(iii) Errors in treatment

chapter |107 pages

(iv) Failure to remove foreign objects inserted into a patient

chapter |1 pages

Empirical studies on consent Review of the use of negligence actions in health care settings

chapter |1 pages

Trade Practices Act and the Fair Trading Act – sleepers?

chapter 4|6 pages

CRIMINAL LAW ASPECTS OF TREATMENT

chapter |21 pages

PART II: ABORTION

chapter |4 pages

A competent patient may refuse any treatment – including life-sustaining treatment

chapter |25 pages

The distinction between causing death and letting die

chapter |12 pages

Are advance directive statutes useful?

chapter 5|10 pages

INFORMATION AND MEDICAL PRACTICE

PART I: CONFIDENTIALITY

chapter |4 pages

Exceptions to confidentiality

chapter |17 pages

Is there a duty of disclosure?

chapter |19 pages

Patient records and FOI legislation Privacy guidelines

chapter 6|3 pages

AIDS AND MEDICAL LAW

chapter |35 pages

PART II: TESTING FOR HIV

part |2 pages

PART III: A NATIONAL STRATEGY ON AIDS?

chapter 7|3 pages

TRANSPLANTS

chapter |21 pages

PART II: INTER VIVOS TRANSPLANTS

chapter 8|2 pages

COMPLAINTS

chapter |2 pages

New South Wales

chapter |14 pages

Queensland

chapter |11 pages

Northern Territory

chapter |7 pages

PART II: DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS