IntroductionPart I Medicine, law and society1 Law and medicine: lessons from yesterday2 The practice of medicine today3 Doctors responsibilities: patients rights4 Medicine, moral dilemmas and the Law5 A relationship of trust and confidencePart II Medical malpractice6 Agreeing to treatment7 Competence, consent and compulsion8 Clinical negligence9 Medical litigation10 The criminal process and medical malpractice11 Complaints and redress12 Medical products liabilityPart III Matters of life and death13 Pregnancy14 Abortion15 Embryo research16 Developments in assisted conception17 Doctors and children18 Healthcare research19 Defining death20 Organ and tissue transplantation21 The human body and its parts22 End of lifeBibliographyIndex