Synopsis "Bioethics, Human Rights and Health Law 2e"
The book is intended to be an introductory guide for healthcare practitioners, legal practitioners, healthcare students and law students who are concerned with the delivery of healthcare services in South Africa. The book emphasises the ethical and legal aspects of healthcare in the country while making references to international human rights and ethical standards applicable to healthcare services. As the book is a guide, it does not deal exhaustively with the topics discussed. Instead it aims to give healthcare and legal practitioners some general guidelines. New edition update: - an updated ethics chapter that includes a robust section on African indigenous values in the context of health care.- a chapter on universal health care coverage and the NHI. - the legislation need to be reviewed and updated. - a section on alternate dispute resolution. - the section on research also requires updating.- the case studies also need to be made more recent to include current contextually relevant issues like the Life Esidimeni Tragedy.Table of contents: Part 1: Introduction to Bioethics, Human Rights and Health Law: Principles and Practice - BackgroundChapter 1 Ethical concepts, theories and principles and their application to healthcareChapter 2. Codes of healthcare ethicsChapter 3. Health and human rightsChapter 4. Health law - the basicsPart 2: Specific TopicsChapter 5. Professionalism and the healthcare practitioner-patient relationshipChapter 6. ConsentChapter 7. ConfidentialityChapter 8. Medical malpractice and professional negligenceChapter 9. Reproductive healthChapter 10. Issues in geneticsChapter 11. Use of human tissueChapter 12. End of life issuesChapter 13. HIV and AIDSChapter 14. Resource allocationChapter 15. Business ethics - the healthcare contextChapter 16. Human health and the environmentChapter 17. The ethics of research
