Medical Law and Ethics

Medical Law and Ethics provides the perfect starting point for any student new to this exciting and often controversial area of law. Drawing on her experience of teaching undergraduate students, as well as time spent practising law for a medical research centre, Leanne Bell presents a lively account of the key areas of the subject. She seeks to go beyond just explaining the legal rules and instead places their development into a wider social and ethical context, challenging you to question how well the law answers or, indeed, can ever hope to answer the often emotionally charged questions at the heart of regulating a contentious area such as medicine.

The book uses a range of features to help deepen your knowledge of the area:

• Key case boxes highlight and identify the landmark cases you will need to remember.

• Ethical question boxes prompt you to reflect on the most challenging and emotive areas of the subject.

• Self-test questions give you a chance to test how well youve grasped the concepts in each chapter.

• Example problem questions help you practice assessment-style questions.

Leanne Bell is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Northumbria University, where she teaches and researches Medical Law. She previously worked as the in-house solicitor for the North East England Stem Cell Research Institute and so has both academic and practice credentials in this area.