Health law in Australia / Ben White, Fiona McDonald, Lindy Willmott.
Material type: TextPublisher: Pyrmont, NSW : Law Book Co., Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia Ltd, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Second editionDescription: lxxiii, 881 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780455231549
- 344.94041 23
- KU1520
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344.94041 HEA Health law in Australia / | 344.94041 MCI Health care and the law / | 344.94041 SKE Law and medical practice : rights, duties, claims, and defences / | 344.94041 WHI Health law in Australia / | 344.940414 STA Nursing and the law / | 344.94046 ADA Adaptation to climate change : law and policy / | 344.94046 BAT Environmental law in Australia / |
"First edition 2010".
Table of cases: pages xxi-xxxvii.
Table of legislation: pages xxxix-lxxiii.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Health law: scope, sources and forces -- 2. Medical and health ethics and law -- 3. The legal framework of the Australian health system -- 4. Human rights and health law -- 5. General principles of consent to medical treatment -- 6. Children and consent to medical treatment -- 7. Adults who lack the capacity: substitute decision-making-- 8. Negligence -- 9. Medical confidentiality and patient privacy -- 10. Assisted reproductive technology -- 11. Abortion -- 12. Surrogacy -- 13. Euthanasia and assisted suicide -- 14. Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatment -- 15. Double effect and palliative care excuses -- 16. Regulation of health professionals -- 17. Public health law -- 18. Mental health law -- 19. Organ and tissue donation -- 20. Health and medical research -- 21. Regulation of genetic technology -- 22. Biotechnology and nonotechnology regulation in Australia.
"Health Law in Australia 2nd editionis 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."--Back cover.
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