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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 - Background Chapter 1 Ethical concepts, theories and principles and their application to healthcare Chapter 2. Codes of healthcare ethics Chapter 3. Health and human rights Chapter 4. Health law - the basics Part 2: Specific Topics Chapter 5. Professionalism and the healthcare practitioner-patient relationship Chapter 6. Consent Chapter 7. Confidentiality Chapter 8. Medical malpractice and professional negligence Chapter 9. Reproductive health Chapter 10. Issues in genetics Chapter 11. Use of human tissue Chapter 12. End of life issues Chapter 13. HIV and AIDS Chapter 14. Resource allocation Chapter 15. Business ethics - the healthcare context Chapter 16. Human health and the environment Chapter 17. The ethics of research

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Author:   Ames Dhai ,  David McQuoid-Mason
Publisher:   Juta & Company Ltd
Imprint:   Juta
Edition:   2nd ed
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781485130727

ISBN 10:   1485130727
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   20 December 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction to Bioethics, Human Rights and Health Law: Principles and Practice – Background; Chapter 1 Ethical concepts, theories and principles and their application to healthcare; Chapter 2. Codes of healthcare ethics; Chapter 3. Health and human rights; Chapter 4. Health law – the basics Part 2: Specific Topics; Chapter 5. Professionalism and the healthcare practitioner–patient relationship; Chapter 6. Consent; Chapter 7. Confidentiality; Chapter 8. Medical malpractice and professional negligence; Chapter 9. Reproductive health; Chapter 10. Issues in genetics; Chapter 11. Use of human tissue; Chapter 12. End of life issues; Chapter 13. HIV and AIDS; Chapter 14. Resource allocation; Chapter 15. Business ethics – the healthcare context; Chapter 16. Human health and the environment; Chapter 17. The ethics of research

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Professor Dhai is a leading authority in bioethics in South Africa. She has played a pivotal role in curriculum development for the Health Professions Council of South Africa for undergraduate health sciences students in Bioethics, Human Rights and Health Law and has taught these disciplines to undergraduate and postgraduate students. She has also run several workshops in research ethics and serves on several institutional and national ethics bodies. She is currently serving a second term as Deputy Chair of the National Health Research Ethics Council. Professor Dhai also plays a significant role in the development of regulations and bioethics policy at local and international levels. She is widely published in bioethics and is the editor-in-chief of the South African Journal of Bioethics and Law and an associate editor of the South African Medical Journal. Professor David J McQuoid-Mason is a Professor of Law at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, a Fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and Visiting Professor at Strathclyde University, Scotland. He has taught LLM programmes in Law and Medical Practice and HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and the Law; and Medical Law and Ethics at the Nelson R Mandela Medical School. He has run numerous workshops on Medical Law and Ethics throughout the country. He has facilitated at NGO training workshops on Street Law, Human Rights and Democracy in over 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.

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