Download or read book Law and Medical Ethics written by R. A. McCall Smith and published by Butterworths. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law and Medical Ethics deals with the continuing debate between doctors, lawyers and medical ethicists regarding the provision of modern health care. It offers a wide-ranging treatment of medical law and examines the many ethical issues which beset medicine today. This new edition has been revised and expanded to reflect current debates and the increased emphasis on human rights issues. It includes a new chapter covering the EU perspective. Written in a clear, concise style, the book offers a broad overview of medical law and its interaction with medical ethics. The authors are leading authorities in their respective fields and provide the reader with an analysis of ethical concepts based on positive legal principles and court decisions, describing what actually happens in practice rather than what should happen, in this important field.