Beschreibung:
Drawing on legal developments in the UK, US, and other jurisdictions, this book revisits a selection of leading cases in medical law, and argues that while the judgments in each came to the correct conclusion, many issues were left unaddressed, and have led to avoidable confusion.
1. The rationale and method of revisiting medical law cases; 2. Adams: life-shortening pain relief; 3. Gillick: consent from a child; 4. Bland: patients in a vegetative state; 5. Re MB: refusal of treatment in late pregnancy; 6 Conclusion: revisiting five further cases