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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law by Christopher Johnston
Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law Third Edition places medical decision-making in its legal context and provides practical guidance to help resolve problems that are likely to be encountered in practice. As such it considers general principles and procedures and particular problems in cases including sterilisation abortion caesarean section feeding religious objections to treatment permanent vegetative state end of life decisions and suicide.This edition has been updated to include: new chapters on assisted reproduction and access to healthcare; significantly rewritten and expanded chapter on deprivation and restraint of liberty since the second edition; detailed consideration of The March 2014 Supreme Court case of Cheshire West and P&Q Article 5 ECHR; the Supreme Court case in Aintree v James; PC v City of York in which MacFarlane LJ emphasised the decision specific” approach of the Mental Capacity Act; important cases on the assessment and treatment of anorexic patients; and the position where treatment has been refused by the patient (including force feeding and gynaecological treatment).Updates and appendices will be available at serjeantsinn.com/medical-treatment-decisions