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Postgraduate study in Laws:

Master of Laws (LLM), Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate

Course outline

Medical law and ethics
Section A: Basic concepts in medical law
· Bioethics
· Consent
· Capacity
· Confidentiality
Section B: Access to treatment and malpractice litigation
· Resource allocation
· Malpractice litigation
· Product liability and the regulation of medicines
· Liability for occurrences before birth
Section C: Legal and ethical issues in medical practice
· Mental health law
· Clinical research
· Organ transplantation
· End of life decisions
Section D: Legal and ethical issues in reproduction
· Abortion
· Embryo and stem cell research
· Assisted conception
· Surrogacy.
Sequence:
Section A first, Section D last.
Textbook:
Emily Jackson, Medical Law: Text, Cases and Materials (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2006), ISBN: 9781859414385