Bioethics, Human Rights and Health Law. Principles and Practice

Abstract

Accompanied by CD-ROM in end pocket. Ethical concepts, theories and principles and their application to healthcare -- Codes of healthcare ethics -- Health and human rights -- Health law: the basics -- Professionalism and the healthcare practitioner-patient relationship -- Consent -- Confidentiality -- Medical malpractice and professional negligence -- Reproductive health -- Issues in genetics -- Use of human tissue -- End of life issues -- HIV and AIDS -- Resource allocation -- Business ethics: the healthcare context -- Human health and the environment -- The ethics of research.