Law and medical practice : rights, duties, claims and defences / Loane Skene.

Sydney : Butterworths, 2004.

2nd ed.

24362

Medical care -- Law and legislation -- Australia.

Medical laws and legislation -- Australia.

1. The medical imdemnity crisis and government responses

2. The legal duties of doctors

3. Consent to medical procedures

4. Consent to medical procedures for children

5. Consent for adult patients who are not medically competent to consent

6. Doctor's duty to provide information

7. Injuries caused by medical treatment

8. Access to medical records

9. Privacy and confidentiality

10. Withdrawal of treatment and euthanasia: adult patients

11. Withdrawal of treatment: infants and children

12. Abortion and wrongful birth.

Includes index.

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xxxvii, 386 p.