Keywords:
1. What is law? -- 2. The legal structure -- 3. The legal process -- 4. Consent to health care by a competent adult -- 5. Consent to health care by a legally competent person -- 6. Negligence -- 7. Patient information and privacy -- 8. Patients' property -- 9. Contract -- 10. Contracts to provide health care services -- 11. Accidents related to health care -- 12. Registration and practice -- 13. Drugs -- 14. Criminal law and health care -- 15. Public health law: registration of birth and death and coronial inquiries -- 16. Public health law: communicable diseases, child abuse and domestic and family violence -- 17. Human tissue transplants and reproductive technology -- 18. Expanding recognition of human rights -- 19. Decision making, law and ethics: a discussion