Medical Law and Ethics by Jonathan Herring

Description

Description

Medical Law and Ethics covers the core legal principles, key cases, and statutes that govern medical law alongside the key ethical debates and dilemmas that exist in the field.

• A concise text providing discussion of the law and an overview of the ethical perspectives, ensuring that readers are able to fully understand the law and its context
• Jonathan Herring’s lively and captivating writing style brings this highly topical aspect of law to life, while remaining closely tailored to course requirements, and as a result this book is the perfect study companion
• Carefully created features throughout the text draw attention to the many diverging opinions in medical law, including religious,feminist, and European perspectives, to ensure that readers develop a fully rounded appreciation of the complexities of the subject
• As the most regularly updated medical law text, you can be confident that the book takes account of the most recent developments in this extremely fast moving subject area

New to this edition

• New coverage of the assisted Dying Bill 2024
• Developments in the law on trans/gender questioning youth
• Extended discussion on disability and abortion
• Discussion of the developing law on medical negligence
• Updated content on the legal and ethical implication of the use of AI in the medical field
• New coverage of the Mental Health Bill introduced to parliament in 2024