Module LAW3066 for 2017/8
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
LAW3066: Medical Ethics and Law
This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Core text:
J. Herring, Medical Law and Ethics, 3rd ed. (OUP, 2010)
Casebook:
E. Jackson, Medical Law, Text, Cases and Materials, 2nd ed. (OUP, 2010)
Suggested supplementary reading:
J. McHale & M. Fox, Health Care Law: Text and Materials, 2nd ed. (Sweet & Maxwell, 2007)
J. K. Mason & G. T. Laurie, Mason and McCall Smith’s Law and Medical Ethics, 8th ed. (OUP,
2011)
S. Pattinson, Medical Law and Ethics, 3rd ed. Sweet & Maxwell, 2011)
M. Stauch & K. Wheat, Text, Cases and Materials on Medical Law and Ethics, 4th ed.
(Routledge, 2012)
M. Brazier, Medicine, Patients and the Law (Penguin, 2011)
T. L. Beauchamp & J. F. Childress, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, 6th ed. (OUP, 2008)
R. Hardcastle, Law and the Human Body (Hart Publishing, 2007)
J. Samanta & A. Samanta, Medical Law (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
J. Herring, Medical Law (OUP Core Text Series, 2011)
C. Foster, Choosing Life, Choosing Death (Hart, 2009)
Additional Reading:
R. Brownsword, Rights, Regulation and the Technological Revolution, (OUP, 2008).
M. Johnson, J. Herring, B. Brooks-Gordon, M. Richards (eds.), Death Rites and Rights (Hart,
2007)
T. Murphy (ed.), New Technologies and Human Rights (OUP, 2009).
T. Hope, J. Savulescu & J. Hendrick, Medical Ethics and Law. The Core Curriculum (Churchill
Livingstone, 2008).
In addition, chapters and journal articles as recommended for each lecture/workshop.