Medical Law Brief Cases

Author: Ellesdal Maclean
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: This book is divided into sixteen chapters, providing a highly summarized and condensed overview of several fundamental issues in medical law through the review and analysis of more than 300 cases. The content covers various aspects such as medical ethics theory, the validity of patients' consent to treatment, the right of patients to refuse treatment, medical issues relatively closely linked to bioethics, mental illness patient issues, medical confidentiality and patients' rights to access medical records, the protection of patients' human rights, medical malpractice, liability for defective medical products, criminal liability for improper medical behavior, the control and treatment of infectious diseases, as well as doctors' professional regulations and many other related topics.