Health Law
Frameworks and Context

Health Law: Frameworks and Context adopts a theoretically informed and principles-based approach to examining health law.

Anne-Maree Farrell (Author), John Devereux (Author), Isabel Karpin (Author), Penelope Weller (Author)

9781107455474, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 May 2017

428 pages
24.7 x 17.5 x 2.2 cm, 0.75 kg

'Overall, I am full of praise for Health Law. It is an agenda-setting work … The work is a tour de force in successfully sustaining a clear and compelling narrative structure, a tightly coherent critical approach, and a strong application of the points of theory to points of regulation and practice … Chapters 1 through 5 provide outstanding foundational materials for courses on health and law anywhere, and should feature on reading lists across our curricula. More generally, the book will serve more innovative programmes in health and law. For undergraduate and postgraduate taught students, I could not recommend it more highly. As indicated, I also would recommend it to researchers in other disciplines, and colleagues outside of academia if they really want to understand what health law is about. Health Law is, quite simply, an excellent textbook.' John Coggon, Centre for Health, Law, and Society, University of Bristol Law School

Drawing upon a range of disciplinary perspectives, Health Law: Frameworks and Context adopts a theoretically informed and principles-based approach to examining health law. Appealing to students and academic scholars alike, the text moves beyond traditional medical law frameworks to provide a broader contextual understanding of the way in which law intersects with health. A clear and accessible style of writing combined with a sophisticated and nuanced approach takes this rich and challenging field to a new level of analysis. Written by respected academics within the field, Health Law: Frameworks and Context is an essential text for scholars and students looking to grasp the fundamental concepts of this rapidly expanding area of law, as well as those who wish to deepen their knowledge and understanding of health law in Australia and internationally.

Introduction
1. Health law: frameworks and context Anne-Maree Farrell
Part I. Frameworks
Section A. Theories, Perspectives and Ethics in Health: 2. Philosophical bioethics and health law Justin Oakley
3. Social perspectives on patient-doctor relations Anne-Maree Farrell
4. Social determinants of health and the role of law Isabel Karpin and Karen O'Connell
5. Health and human rights law Penelope Weller
Section B. Institutions and Regulation: 6. The regulatory framework for health in Australia John Devereux
7. Regulating health professionals Gabrielle Wolf
8. Regulating patient safety and redress Anne-Maree Farrell
Part II. Context
Section A. Patients, Doctors and Health Care: 9. Consent to medical treatment John Devereux
10. Substituted decision-making Penelope Weller
11. Medical negligence John Devereux
12. Confidentiality, privacy and access to information John Devereux
Section B. Law at the Beginning and the End of Life: 13. Regulating reproduction Isabel Karpin
14. Regulating emerging reproductive technologies Isabel Karpin
15. Withdrawal and withholding of medical treatment Penelope Weller
16. Euthanasia and assisted suicide Penelope Weller
Section C. Law and the Human Body: 17. Organ and tissue donation and transplantation Anne-Maree Farrell
18. Property and human tissue Anne-Maree Farrell
19. Biobanks Anne-Maree Farrell
20. Human genetics and the law Isabel Karpin and Karen O'Connell
Section D. Law and Populations: 21. Indigenous health and the law Stephen Gray
22. Health law and people with disability Isabel Karpin
23. Mental health law Penelope Weller
24. Public health law Kate Mulvany
25. Global health and the law Anne-Maree Farrell.

Subject Areas: Medical & healthcare law [LNTM]