Health Law : Commentary and Materials

Primarily designed as a reference text for tertiary nursing students, but also useful for other tertiary students and practitioners in health and legal services areas. Collects case law and statute law extracts relevant to work done by health care professionals. Divided into eight chapters dealing with the most common issues of concern for health care workers such as records and confidentiality, organ and tissue transplantation and provisions relating to drugs and poisons. Appendix includes an extract from the 1993 House of Lords case of Airedale NHS v Bland regarding the right to withdraw life support systems. Also includes a table of cases and statutes.MacFarlane, Peter is the author of 'Health Law : Commentary and Materials', published 1993 under ISBN 9781862870987 and ISBN 1862870985.