Contemporary Issues in Healthcare Law and Ethics

This book is designed to provide healthcare professionals with information on current issues in healthcare law and ethics. Key topics include: the social creation of health law and healthcare; access to healthcare and control of its quality (including the prevention of health crime, as well as civil control); genetics and disability at the beginning of life; vaccination and medical research during life; euthanasia at the end of life and the exercise, control and use of body parts after life. * Covers the most current and controversial issues in healthcare law * Makes complex legal arguments accessible to the more general reader