LL205
Medical Law
This information is for the 2011/12 session.
Teachers responsible
Professor Emily Jackson and Dr Julie McCandless
Availability
This course is optional for Parts I and II LLB and BA Anthropology and Law. It is also available to General Course students and as an outside option. Course content
A study of medical law and ethics.
1. Bioethics
2. Resource allocation in the NHS
3. Clinical negligence and product liability
4. Consent: Capacity and Information
5. Confidentiality and genetic information
6. Clinical research
7. Mental health law
8. Regulation of medicines
9. Reproduction; abortion; surrogacy; assisted conception; PGD; reproductive torts
10. Embryo and stem cell research
11. Genetics
12. Organ transplantation
13. End of life decision making
Teaching
Lectures: one hour, weekly MT, LT.
Classes: one hour, weekly MT, LT.
Formative coursework
Students will be expected to prepare outline arguments for classes/seminars, in addition to handing in at least one essay in the first and second terms.
Indicative reading
Emily Jackson (2009) Medical Law (OUP, 2nd edition); Margaret Brazier and Emma Cave (2011) Medicine, Patients and the Law (Penguin, 5th edition).
Assessment
A formal three-hour examination (100%), where you must answer three questions from a choice of ten. ^
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