Publisher's Synopsis
This revised and updated edition explores the law relating to consent, covering both the general principles where the patient is a mentally competent adult, and also the specialist areas of mental incapacity, children and parents. The text is intended for all health professionals, health service managers and patient groups and their representatives. It uses a style which avoids legal jargon and by the use of illustrating situations or cases provides an easy guide to the law relating to consent. Like the other books in this series, Legal Aspects of Consent 2nd edition provides a succinct, useful basis from which practitioners and others can extend their knowledge of the law for the protection of their patients, their colleagues and themselves. Do not get caught out not knowing what to do.
Content covers:
Different forms of consent
The duty of care to inform
Determining mental capacity
Disputes with parents
Determining ‘best interests’
Research using children
Consent and the scope of professional practice.
Bridgit Dimond MA, LLB, DSA, AHSM, Barrister-at-law is Emeritus Professor of the University of Glamorgan
'This second, updated and improved, edition now includes the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and surrounding issues. Short, descriptive paragraphs are supplemented with examples and information from real life situations and case studies. These examples are superbly illustrative of the points being made and help greatly in providing a relevant context for health professionals. A wide variety of topics are covered, ranging from fertility treatment to organ removal, euthanasia to mental capacity. At the end of each chapter there is a good range of reference material for further investigation if required. A very good, and very succinct, overview is provided
by way of conclusion to the book and this brings together many of the strands discussed within
the book...This text provides clarity to an otherwise complex topic'.
International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation.
