Keywords:
Social issues in health care Confidentiality: Ethical and legal duties; access to medical records Consent: competence and authority to consent; minors; intellectual disability; mental health; refusal of treatment; Disclosure of information Professional liability: negligence; duty of care; standrad of care; breach of duty; causation; trespass to the person; liability of hospitals Dispute resolution: defensive medicine; no fault compensation; State-based Complaints Commisions Reserach: human embryos; the human genome Reproduction: wrongful birth; prenatal injury; wrongful life; abortion and fathers' rights; foetal rights Reproductive technology: access to treatment; parents and donors; frozen embryos Human tissue: donation and transplantation; property in human tissue and bodies Dying and death: withholding and withdrawing treatment; assisted suicide; euthanasia