Product Description: There can be few aspects of life which have altered so dramatically in the past few decades as the relationship between medicine and the law. Treatments become more and more sophisticated as each advance in medicine is made. At the same time, the legal and moral issues surrounding such treatments have multiplied and have become increasingly sensitive and complex...read more

Product Description: Mason looks at the legal response to those aspects of the troubled pregnancy which require or involve medico-legal intervention. The unwanted pregnancy is considered particularly in the light of the Abortion Act 1967, s.1(1)(d) and the related action for so-called wrongful birth due to faulty ante-natal care...read more

Discusses the relationship of medical practice and ethics with the operation of the law. The subjects covered include natural and assisted reproduction, the impact of modern genetics on medicine, medical confidentiality, and consent to medical treatment. This book appeals to those with an interest in the ethical and legal practice of medicine.

Product Description: This new edition of Law and Medical Ethics continues to chart the ever-widening field that the topics cover. The interplay between the health caring professions and the public during the period intervening since the last edition has, perhaps, been mainly dominated by wide-ranging changes in the administration of the National Health Service and of the professions themselves but these have been paralleled by important developments in medical jurisprudence...read more

Product Description: âThe Pathology of Traumaã is now firmly established as the definitive guide to the characteristics, causes and effects of accidental, occupational and violent trauma. The new edition approaches the forensic aspects of trauma from the conditions in which they arise looking at the circumstances in which injuries occur, the types of injury sustained and their avoidance and prevention...read more

This work is concerned, in the main, with reproduction - for which marriage is not an essential prerequisite. Nevertheless, much of sexuality and the greater part of parenthood still subsist within the marital relationship. Sex and marriage are interdependent - indeed the definition of the latter depends on the former. After looking at the prerequisites for marriage and for making a marriage void, the author shows that the medico-legal interests of marriage relate to the mental health and the sex of the parties. The author also looks at various aspects of the sexual-familial relationship, including contraception, sterilization, abortion, protection of the foetus, foetal experimentation, the infertile husband, the infertile woman, defective neonates and infants, consent to treatment and research in children, the protection of young children and the killing of children within the family. Cases are used to highlight the legal aspects of these subjects.

Product Description: This medical reference work for those in the field of forensic medicine contains over 450 colour photographs with fully descriptive legends along with supporting text. The legends highlight the important features and "clues" in the illustrations...read more

Product Description: This new edition of Law and Medical Ethics continues to chart the ever-widening field that the topics cover. The interplay between the health caring professions and the public during the period intervening since the last edition has, perhaps, been mainly dominated by wide-ranging changes in the administration of the National Health Service and of the professions themselves but these have been paralleled by important developments in medical jurisprudence...read more

Discusses ethical issues involving terminal illness, euthanasia, suicide, brain damage, birth defects, abortion, and in vitro fertilization

Product Description: This book is intended to help medical witnesses present evidence in court. It combines theoretical background material on the legal process with practical advice and case histories based on the authors' extensive experience. The range of coverage extends from simple cases of factual testimony to those involving doctors as expert witnesses...read more

Product Description: A feature of forensic medicine is that it crosses both medical and legal boundaries. The increasing complexity of modern medicine and the changing attitudes of patients to the provision of medical care dictate the need for a corresponding increase in forensic medical knowledge...read more

Product Description: Drawing on their extensive knowledge of this area, the authors have selected topics from across the field of legal medicine to compile a comprehensive encyclopedia of over 600 entries, each giving a clear, readable, but concise account of its topic...read more

Product Description: This volume is designed to provide the lawyer with an understanding of the evidence provided in court by medical professionals, and assist in deciphering the reports of expert medical witnesses. It looks at all causes of death, whether through offence, accident or otherwise.