Written by one of Ireland's leading medical law academics, this practical book comprehensively covers Irish case law and regulations regarding the healthcare system, the law relating to human reproduction, and the key issues of consent and treatment. Designed to be used by lawyers and healthcare professionals, the book provides an invaluable reference tool for anybody who requires accurate information and guidance on this area of Irish law. This second edition covers medical research and clinical trials, organ donation and transportation, patient safety, and biobanking.

Remembering Light and Stone is a moving study of a young woman coming to terms with herself in a changing world.

Product Description: This book was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. When Fintan Buckley develops an interest in old autochrome photographs, strange things start to happen. To all appearances, Fintan holds down a successful job and enjoys life with his conventional middle-class family in Dublin, yet inwardly he starts to experience states of altered consciousness, with unsettling hallucinations and sudden insights...read more

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this convenient volume provides comprehensive analysis of the law affecting the physician-patient relationship in Ireland. Cutting across the traditional compartments with which lawyers are familiar, medical law is concerned with issues arising from this relationship, and not with the many wider juridical relations involved in the broader field of health care law. After a general introduction, the book systematically describes law related to the medical profession, proceeding from training, licensing, and other aspects of access to the profession, through disciplinary and professional liability and medical ethics considerations and quality assurance, to such aspects of the physician-patient relationship as rights and duties of physicians and patients, consent, privacy, and access to medical records. Also covered are specific issues such as organ transplants, human medical research, abortion, and euthanasia, as well as matters dealing with the physician in relation to other health care providers, health care insurance, and the health care system. Succinct and practical, this book will prove to be of great value to professional organizations of physicians, nurses, hospitals, and relevant government agencies. Lawyers representing parties with interests in Ireland will welcome this very useful guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its comparative value as a contribution to the study of medical law in the international context.

A Finalist for the Orange PrizeIt is the height of summer, and celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house in Dublin to a friend while she is away performing in New York. Alone among all of Molly's possessions, struggling to finish her latest play, she looks back on the many years and many phases of her friendship with Molly and their college friend Andrew, and comes to wonder whether they really knew each other at all. She revisits the intense closeness of their early days, the transformations they each made in the name of success and security, the lies they told each other, and betrayals they never acknowledged. Set over a single midsummer's day, Molly Fox's Birthday is a mischievous, insightful novel about a turning point--a moment when past and future suddenly appear in a new light.

When millionaire, Barney, returns to live in the place that he was born, equally rich millionaire, Jasper, is worried that he'll be upstaged. He sets out to make life as difficult as possible for Barney - with hilarious and far-reaching consequences. This is a tale of invisible dogs and magic fudge, bats, cats and beans on toast.

In a novel that explores living the creative life and the cost of neglecting it, an artist's brief but powerful encounter with a desperately unhappy stranger sets in motion a chain of events that has dramatic consequences. Original.

Jane's difficult childhood as an orphan shapes her life and indirectly influences the lives of her two daughters, Sarah and Catherine

Product Description: For Theresa and her student friends, Belfast can seem an urban nightmare - a city where violence can erupt at any moment, where secrecy and bitterness are nursed behind closed doors, and where Theresa's twin brother, Francis, has been murdered, Deirdre Madden carefully and movingly reveals the crisis of faith that confronts Theresa when her devout Catholicism provides no explanation for the tragedy...read more