Combining law with medical ethics.

Combining law with medical ethics.

A postgraduate Diploma in Medical Ethics and Law was started in October 1984 by the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics at King's College. It is a part-time one year course designed so as to enable students to continue with full-time employment if they wish. It is multidiscipinary and is open to all who have a first degree in a relevant discipline, for example law, philosophy, theology, medicine a...

Caregivers in medical law and ethics.

Handicapped infants: medical ethics and the law.

The main purpose of this paper (1) is to draw attention to a gap between the principles of Common Law and the principles accepted by many leading medical practitioners on the ethics of allowing severely handicapped infants to die. The Common Law principles are shown in Court of Appeal judgements on two cases. The contrasting principles of many paediatricians were illustrated at the trial of Dr ...

Medical Research with Children: Ethics, Law and Practice

Research on children poses special problems to humanity: how does one go about pursuing medical knowledge, directly or indirectly beneficial to all children, in a way that does not jeopardize the interests of any individual child? Is it ethical to perform tests or procedures on a child who may not be able to give fully informed consent? There are many ethical and legal principles involved, with...

The relationship between medical law and good medical ethics.

In the UK, medical ethics and law are often thought of and taught together, but while 'good medical ethics' is often reflected in law-the need to obtain a patient's adequately informed consent, for example-this is not necessarily the case. Sometimes medical ethics is more demanding than law; at other times, perhaps counterintuitively, the law appears to ask more of doctors than does good medica...