Disputes and dilemmas in health law / Editors Ian Freckelton, Kerry Petersen.

Annandale, N.S.W. : Federation Press, 2006.

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Medical laws and legislation -- Australia.

Medical care -- Law and legislation -- Australia.

1. Disputes and dilemmas in health law: an overview --2. Moral frameworks in health care: an introduction to ethics --3. Advance directives: disputes and dilemmas --4. Competency issues for young persons and older persons --5. Human rights, health rights and the jurisprudence of public health law --6. Mental health law and therapeutic jurisprudence --7. New directions in public health law --8. Mad cows and prions: legal, ethical and operational challenges in responding to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and variant CJD --9. International trade agreements and the practice of medicine --10. Old technologies and new challenges: assisted reproduction and its regulation --11. Genetic technologies and ART: ethical values, legal regulation and informal regulation --12. The regulation of cloning and stem cell research --13. Genetic research and commercialisation --14. Current issues in gene patenting --15. The evolving institution of coroner --16. Disposing of the dead: objectivity, subjectivity and identity --17. Organ donation and transplantation in Australia --18. Arbitrating "end-of-life" decisions: issues, processes, and the role of the law --19. Life after the Ipp Reforms: medical negligence laws --20. Doctors and forensic expertise --21. Judicial activism or 'traditional' negligence law? Conception, pregnancy and denial of reproductive choice --22. Dilemmas in obstetrics and midwifery --23. Nurses as defendants: emerging risks --24. Regulation of health practitioners --25. Health systems, quality control and corporatisation: new challenges for accountability --26. Vulnerability in research --27. Re-thinking confidentiality --28. Privacy issues, HealthConnect and beyond --29. Genetic privacy, discrimination and insurance --30. Record creation and access: the impact of legislative changes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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xxxv, 698 p.