Tensions and traumas in health law / editors: Ian Freckelton [and] Kerry Petersen.

Annandale, N.S.W. : The Federation Press, 2017.

1st edition

88236

Medical laws and legislation -- Australia.

Public health laws -- Australia.

Medical ethics.

Medical personnel -- Professional ethics.

Medical care -- Australia.

Public health -- Australia.

PART A: Human rights issues

1. Health Law and Human Rights: Towards Equality in the Human Right to Health

2. Aged Care and Liberty Deprivation 3. Mental Health Law

4. Accountability through Litigation: Health Care Justice and Australia's Immigration Detention Program

PART B: Ethico-legal issues

5. Ethico-Legal Dilemmas in Clinical Service Delivery: Continuity, Recognition and Relationships in Clinical Service Delivery

6. Finite Resources and Clinical Care: Rationing

PART C: Global health issues

7. Health Care and International Trade and Investment

8. Global Health

9. Public Health Law

10. Transnational Health Care: Regulating the Line Between Hype and Hope in Health Tourism

PART D: Consent issues

11. Cracks in the Lintel of Consent

12. Refusal of Potentially Life-saving Treatment for Minors

13. End of Life Decision-making for (Extremely) Premature or Critically Impaired Infants

PART E: Privacy and confidentiality issues

14. Health Privacy and Confidentiality

15. Genetic Privacy

PART F: Reproductive technology issues

16. Assisted Reproduction: Emerging Technologies, Ethics, Regulation and Practice

17. Non-Medical Sex Selection: Sliding Down the Slippery Slope?

18 Surrogacy

PART G: Health research issues

19. Commercialisation of Genomic Research: The Issue of Public Trust

20. Property in Human Biomaterials

21. Human Embryos, Genome Editing and Future Directions

22. Gene Patents

23. Trends and Challenges in Biobanking

24. Research Fraud by Health Practitioners and the Criminal Law

PART H: Death and dying issues

25. Withholding and Withdrawing Potentially Life-Sustaining Treatment: Who Should Decide?

26. Assisted Dying in Australia: A Values-based Model for Reform

27. Assisted Dying: Learning from the International Experience

28. Organ Donation

29 Families in Conflict over their Dead

30. Death Investigation and the Role of the Coroner

PART I: Legal liability issues

31. Medical Practitioner Liability in Negligence

32. Complementary Health Law

33. The Forensic Role of Health Practitioners

PART J: Reform and regulatory issues

34. Health Workforce Conflicts

35. Abortion Laws: Criminalisation and Decriminalisation

36. Complaint Resolution, Quality Improvement and Public Protection: The Diverse Roles of Australasian Health Complaints Entities

37. Regulation of Health Practitioners.

This book builds upon the successful Controversies in Health Law (1999) and Disputes and Dilemmas in Health Law (2006). Under the same editorship, it is substantially larger (37 chapters instead of 18 and 30 respectively) and correspondingly more comprehensive. It retains the lively analysis and the focus on controversial and cutting-edge problems in health law. The chapters are broken up into 10 parts covering Human Rights Issues; Ethico-Legal Issues; Global Health Issues; Consent Issues; Privacy and Confidentiality Issues; Reproductive Technology Issues; Health Research Issues; Death and Dying Issues; Legal Liability Issues; and Reform and Regulatory Issues. They consider issues raised by new technologies, changing legislation and altering community expectations; by new regulatory processes for medicine and all of the health professions; by important changes to civil liability for medical negligence; by likely changes to the legality of assisted dying/euthanasia law; by biobanking and embryo research. Tensions and Traumas in Health Law covers questions on property in human tissue and on the ethical and legal aspects of the genetics revolution; provides a modern take on 'old' issues such as reproductive law and on refusal of treatment for seriously ill minors; takes account of changes relating to the delivery of health services such as global and public health law policies, and by health tourism; reviews the dilemmas posed by regulation of unregistered health professions, research misconduct and the forensic role of health practitioners; and discusses how difficult cases in relation to informed consent, lost chance litigation, mental harm claims and wrongful birth cases have pushed compensability to its edges. -- Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tensions & traumas in health law

9781760021498

xliv, 787 pages ; 25 cm