Table of Contents: Legal Aspects of Consent 2nd Edition

The different forms of consent
Chapter 4
The duty of care to inform
Chapter 5
Duty to inform patients of risks
Chapter 6
The determination of mental capacity
Chapter 7
The Mental Capacity Act 2005
Chapter 8
Young persons of 16 and 17 years
Chapter 9
Children under the age of 16 years
Chapter 10
Disputes with parents
Chapter 11
Lasting powers of attorney, the Court of Protection and the Office of the Public Guardian
Chapter 12
Compulsory Caesarean sections
Chapter 13
Organ donation after death
Chapter 14
Organ donation from live donors
Chapter 15
Organ removal, retention and storage
Chapter 16
Living wills
Chapter 17
Advocacy for adults lacking mental capacity or who are mentally disordered
Chapter 18
Not for resuscitation instructions
Chapter 19
Issues relating to euthanasia
Chapter 20
Research and the mentally competent adult
Chapter 21
Research using children or mentally incapable adults
Chapter 22
Amputation of healthy limbs
Chapter 23
Consent and the scope of professional practice
Chapter 24
Consent and fertility treatment
Chapter 25
Consent and the mentally disordered
Chapter 26
Overview
Further reading
Glossary
Abbreviations
Websites
Appendix I
Schedule 1 to the Human Rights Act 1998 281
Appendix II
Schedule 3 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act
1990 as amended by 2008 Act 289
Appendix III
Schedule 3ZA of the Human Fertilisation and
Embryology Act 1990 as amended by 2008 Act 307
Index of cases 309
Index of statutes 313
Index 315