The relationship between medical law and good medical ethics

Jackson, Emily (2015) The relationship between medical law and good medical ethics. Journal of Medical Ethics, 41 (1). pp. 95-98. ISSN 0306-6800

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Abstract

In the UK, medical ethics and law are often thought of and taught together, but while ‘good medical ethics’ is often reflected in law–the need to obtain a patient's adequately informed consent, for example—this is not necessarily the case. Sometimes medical ethics is more demanding than law; at other times, perhaps counterintuitively, the law appears to ask more of doctors than does good medical ethics.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://jme.bmj.com/
Additional Information:	© 2015 British Medical Journal Publishing Group
Library of Congress subject classification:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics K Law > K Law (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Sets:	Departments > Law
Date Deposited:	30 Oct 2015 12:07
URL:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/64235/

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