Medical Ethics Today: The BMA's Handbook of Ethics and Law

1. The doctor–patient relationship
2. Consent, choice and refusal: adults with capacity
3. Treating adults who lack capacity
4. Children and young people
5. Confidentiality
6. H e a l t h r e c o r d s
7. Contraception, abortion and birth
8. Assisted reproduction
9. Genetis
10. Caring for patients at the end of life
11. Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide
12. Responsibilities after a patient’s death
13. Prescribing and administering medication
14. Research and innovative treatment
15. Emergency situations
16. Doctors with dual obligations
17. Providing treatment and care in detention settings
18. Education and training
19. Teamwork, shared care, referral and delegation
20. Public health dimensions of medical practice
21. Reducing risk, clinical error and poor performance

This is your source for authoritative and comprehensive guidance from the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Ethics Department covering both routine and highly contentious medico-legal issues faced by health care professionals. The new edition updates the information from both the legal and ethical perspectives and reflects developments surrounding The Mental Capacity Act, Human Tissue Act, and revision of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act.