This is the third volume of a series entitled 'Current Legal Issues'. It considers the many areas where medicine intersects with the law. All important and changing facets of law and medicine are reflected in this collection.

Health Care in Private Hands ; Information, Technology, Accountability ; The Manipulation of Medical Practice ; Clinical Guidelines, Negligence, Practice ; The Challenge of Medical Negligence Claims ; The Limits of Informed Consent ; Patient Autonomy - a Turn in the Tide? ; Legal Limits: When does Autonomy Prevail? ; Law, Society, and the New Genetics ; The Ethics of Human Cloning ; Diversity and the New Genetics ; Gene Therapy - Cure or Challenge? ; The Unborn Child and its Addicted Mother ; The Embryo in Islamic Jurisprudence ; The Best Interests of Very Sick Children ; Autonomy and Caesarian Section ; Policing Pregnancy: Rights and Wrongs ; The Gifts of Life-donating Gametes ; Consent and Intent in Assisted Reproduction ; Symbolic harm and Reproductive Practices ; Inherent Rights in Assisted Reproduction ; Viagra and the Rhetoric of Choice and Need ; The Politics of Paternity ; Research on Human Subjects ; Priorities for Biomedical Research ; NZ Health Research with Children ; Medical Data and the Need for Principles ; Pre-employment Health Screening ; Facilitating Live Adult Donor Transplants? ; Thrift Euthanasia in Theory and Practice ; The Comatose Pregnant Woman ; Taking Stock of the Mental Health Act ; Mind and Body: Medicine and Law

`... this collection includes much interesting material from distinguished, as well as newer, scholars. ... [in] ... one of the most fascinating essays in the collection ... Dingwall explores the societal impact of the new genetics. ... this collection offers a fascinating snapshot of current research in medical law. ... the majority of these essays are thought-provoking and the best of them point to exciting new directions for medical/health law. ... a valuable addition to library resources, and a useful starting point for exploring and developing the ideas contained within individual contributions.' Medical Law Review, 9, Summer 2001

Third volume in the series whose sister publication "Current Legal Problems" is very well known and highly regarded Interdisciplinary with a wide range of material covering law and medicine Lively case-studies that are international in breadth

Michael Freeman (Editor in Chief of Current Legal Publications and Editor of Current Legal Problems) is Professor of English law at UCL Andrew Lewis, (Associate Editor of Current Legal Publications, General Editor of Current Legal Issues) is Senior Lecturer is Law at UCL

Third volume in the series whose sister publication "Current Legal Problems" is very well known and highly regarded Interdisciplinary with a wide range of material covering law and medicine Lively case-studies that are international in breadth