Health law in Australia / by Ben White, Fiona McDonald, Lindy Willmott, Shih-ning Then.

Pyrmont, N.S.W. : Lawbook Co., 2024.

4th edition

200875

Medical care -- Law and legislation -- Australia.

Part 1: Introduction to health law

1. Health law: scope, sources and forces

2. Medical and health ethics and law

3. The legal framework of the Australian health system

4. Human rights and health law

Part 2: General principles of health law

5. General principles of consent to medical treatment

6. Children and consent to medical treatment

7. Adults who lack capacity: substitute decision-making

8. Negligence

9. Privacy and confidentiality in healthcare

Part 3: Beginning of life

10. Assisted reproductive technology

11. Abortion

12. Surrogacy

Part 4: End of life

13. Voluntary assisted dying

14. Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatment

15. Double effect and palliative care excuses

Part 5: Select issues in health law

16. Regulation of health professional and health workers

17. Public health law

18. Mental health law

19. Organ and tissue donation and transplantation

20. Health and medical research

21. Regulation of genetic testing.

Health Law in Australia is Australia's leading text in this area and was the first book to deal with health law on a comprehensive national basis. In this important field that continues to give rise to challenges for society, the book takes a logical, structured approach to explain the breadth of this area of law across all Australian jurisdictions. By covering all the major areas in this diverse field, Health Law in Australia enhances the understanding of the discipline as a whole. The book begins by situating health law in its wider context with chapters on medical ethics, human rights and how the health system as a whole is regulated. It then explores the general principles of health law, including chapters on "Negligence", "Children and Consent to Medical Treatment”, and "Medical Confidentiality and Patient Privacy". The book goes on to consider beginning-of-life and end-of-life issues, before concluding with chapters on emerging areas in health law, such as medical research, genetic technologies and biotechnology. The contributing authors are national leaders who are specialists in these areas of health law and who can share with readers the results of their research.Health Law in Australia has been written for both legal and health audiences. It is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and scholars in the disciplines of law, health and medicine, as well as health and legal practitioners, private health providers, and government departments and bodies in the health area. - Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780455247311

lxxxix, 978 pages ; 25 cm