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Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law

Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law

Paperback

General Law

ISBN10: 1526516551
ISBN13: 9781526516558
Publisher: Tottel Publishing
Published: Sep 3 2022
Pages: 856
Weight: 3.05
Height: 1.97 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.69
Language: English

This leading textbook places medical decision-making in its legal context and provides practical guidance on the most ethically challenging cases that face the courts. It explains how the Mental Capacity Act works in practice and how the courts and lawyers wrestle with and resolve problems relating to the very essence of life: what is life? what is an acceptable quality of life? what treatment is so burdensome that it should not be attempted? These questions are posed, not in the abstract but, in real - often desperate, often urgent - situations.

This is the essential guide for solicitors, barristers and judges specialising in Court of Protection work, clinical negligence, personal injury and human rights. Postgraduate medical ethics students and academics, NHS bodies and local authority professionals, health professionals and administrators in the NHS and private practice and those in Commonwealth countries with an interest in these topics will also find this book an invaluable resource.

Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law offers a readily accessible text for those dealing with the provision of medical treatment to those without capacity and related areas, providing a clear description of procedure as well as practical application of the law.

Key developments for the Fourth Edition include:

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