This revised and updated edition explores the law relating to both general principles and specialist areas in a jargon-free, easy to understand way. It uses examples and scenarios to illustrate key points and covers:
-Different forms of consent
-The duty of care to inform
-Determining mental capacity
-Disputes with parents
-Determining 'best interests'
-Research using children
-Consent and the scope of professional practice.
The text is intended for all health professionals, health service managers and patient groups and their representatives.
Bridgit Dimond MA, LLB, DSA, AHSM, Barrister-at-law is Emeritus Professor of the University of Glamorgan
'This second, updated and improved, edition now includes the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and surrounding issues. Short, descriptive paragraphs are supplemented with examples and information from real life situations and case studies. These examples are superbly illustrative of the points being made and help greatly in providing a relevant context for health professionals. A wide variety of topics are covered, ranging from fertility treatment to organ removal, euthanasia to mental capacity. At the end of each chapter there is a good range of reference material for further investigation if required. A very good, and very succinct, overview is provided
by way of conclusion to the book and this brings together many of the strands discussed within
the book...This text provides clarity to an otherwise complex topic'.
International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation.
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