Australian health law / Sonia Allan, Meredith Blake.

Chatswood, N.S.W : Lexis Nexis, 2018.

1st edition

88607

Medical laws and legislation -- Australia.

Medical care -- Ethics -- Australia.

National health services -- Australia.

Mental health laws -- Australia.

Donation of organs, tissues, etc -- Law and legislation -- Australia.

Death -- Law and legislation -- Australia.

Right to die -- Law and legislation -- Australia.

Part 1: Health law: scope, influences and perspectives

1. Introduction

2. Ethics of health care

3. Health law and human rights

Part 2: Understanding Australia's health system

4. The Australian health system

5. The regulation of health care practitioners

Part 3: Key principles of health law

6. Consent to health care treatment

7. Harm arising from health care treatment: negligence

8. Duties and rights associated with health care information

Part 4: Health law in context: the beginning of life

9. Pre-conception, conception and birth

10. Assisted reproduction

Part 5: Health law in context: health matters throughout the life course

11. Public health law

12. Mental health law

13. Organ, tissue and blood donation

14. Research involving human participants and materials

Part 6: Health law in context: the end of life

15. The ending of life: adults

16. The ending of life 2: minors

Part 7: Conclusion

17. Conclusion.

Australian Health Law combines detailed discussion and critical analysis of Australian health law as it relates to individual and public health matters. It offers a cohesive, in-depth examination of health law at local, state and national levels, while also reflecting upon broader global considerations. The comprehensive coverage includes discussion of the underpinning influences and principles relevant to health law, the law regulating Australia's health care system, health care practitioner regulation, key legal principles relevant to the patient-practitioner relationship, and health law in the context of the beginning of life, throughout the life course, and ending of life. Meticulously researched, this book is an invaluable resource for scholars, students and practitioners on Australian health law. - Publisher's website.

9780409348491

lxiv, 743 pages ; 25 cm