Table of Contents

Part 1.
1: Christopher Newdick: The organisation of health care
2: Mary O'Rourke QC and Jonathan Holl-Allen: Regulating health care professions
Part 2.
3: Rachel Mulheron: Duties in contract and tort
4: Philippa Whipple QC and Philip Havers QC: Breach of duty
5: Stephen Todd: Actions arising from birth
6: Richard Goldberg: Causation and defences
7: Keith Syrett: Institutional liability
Part 3.
8: David Lock: Consent to treatment: the competent patient
9: David Lock and Sir James Munby: The test for capacity
10: Sir Justice James Munby: Consent to treatment: patients lacking capacity and children
11: Judith Laing and Nicola Glover-Thomas: Mental health law
12: Shaun Pattinson and Deryck Beyleveld: Confidentiality and data protection
13: Jean McHale: Clinical research
Part 4.
14: Michael Freeman: Medically assisted reproduction
15: Michael Freeman: Reproductive genetics
16: Emily Jackson: Abortion
Part 5.
17: Christopher Hodges: The regulation of medicinal products and medical devices
18: Harvey Teff: Products liability
Part 6.
19: Jean McHale: The legal regulation of the use of human material
20: Graeme Laurie: Patenting and the human body
Part 7.
21: Jonathan Herring: Ending life
22: Kenyon Mason: Death

About the Author

Andrew Grubb is a Senior Immigration Judge in the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Prior to taking up a judicial post, he was Professor of Medical law and Head of Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University. Previously, he was Professor of Health Care Law and Director of the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics Kings College London and lecturer at Cambridge University. He has been a visiting Professor at Boston University
and the University of New Mexico Law Schools. He has been a member of a number of bioethics bodies including the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the Ethics Committee of the Royal
College of Physicians. He was editor of the Medical Law Review between 1992 and 2004. Judith Laing is a lecturer in law at the University of Bristol. She previously taught at Cardiff Law School and the University of Liverpool. Her research and teaching interests lie primarily in tort, criminal and medical law and she has a particular interest in mental health law. She has a number of publications in peer reviewed journals and edited collections, and her PhD thesis was published by OUP in 1999.
She assisted Professor Andrew Grubb with the second edition of Principles of Medical Law, as well as co-writing one of the chapters.She has been an Assistant Editor of the Medical law Review and Case
Note Editor of the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. Jean McHale is Professor of Health Care Law and Director of the Institute of Medical Law at University of Birmingham Law School. She has taught previously at the Universities of Leciester, East Anglia, Nottingham and Manchester. Her research interests are in the area of health care law. She is a member of the editorial board of the Medical Law Review

Reviews

`Review from previous edition A comprehensive and authoritative guide to the present law ... any practising or academic lawyer would benefit from access to a copy."
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Cambridge Law Journal
`An outstanding piece of scholarship ... high in quality throughout, well internally cross-referenced and very well written ... By some distance it is the best textbook in the area.
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Journal of Law and Medicine
`This latest text is useful to the Practitioner because it considers in depth difficult issues... the layout is clear with separate parts, chapters and paragraphs for ease of reference. There is a wealth of footnotes and a comprehensive table of cases and statutes with an excellent index. The test of any substantial law text such as this is whether it becomes a leading work in the subject. This seems assured for Principles of Medical Law.

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Jarlath Spellman, Barrister, The Bar Review
`It is a tribute to the merits of this book that one, while consulting it regularly, scarcely noticed that six years had lapsed since its first arrival...This book remains a monumental work, comprehensive in its coverage and apparently seamless in its presentation, thanks to skilful editing...For anyone wishing to gain a sound academic understanding of medical law, this remains the work to turn to.
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B Mahendra, New Law Journal