Medical Law and Medical Ethics

Nils Hoppe is Professor of life sciences regulation at Leibniz Universitaet, Hannover, a director of the Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences. He is also a group leader in the research cluster 'REBIRTH – From Regenerative Biology to Reconstructive Therapy', specialising in technology regulation and bioethics. José Miola is Professor of Medical Law at the School of Law, University of Leicester. He has published widely in the area and is on the editorial boards of the Medical Law Review, Clinical Ethics and the UK Clinical Ethics Network.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Confidentiality and access to information; 3. Errors and fault; 4. Consent and autonomy; 5. Incapable adults and children; 6. Resource allocation and prioritisation; 7. Assisted reproduction; 8. Abortion, neonaticide and infanticide; 9. Organ and tissue transplantation; 10. Research; 11. End of life; 12. Concluding thoughts.

'This book provides a thoughtful and insightful engagement with the subject of medical law. In encouraging readers to think thematically across different substantive areas, the authors have succeeded in not only illuminating some of the most crucial ethical debates for this area of legal regulation, but of telling the story of the development of medical law and of highlighting the difficulty of the decisions that have to be reached. The book's conversational style is sure to provoke further interesting debate amongst its readership.' Julie McCandless, London School of Economics and Political Science