Bioethics, Medical Law and Human Rights (3rd Edition) – A South African Perspective

Bioethics, Medical Law and Human Rights (3rd Edition) – A South African Perspective

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Healthcare delivery in the 21st century has become increasingly complex and demanding. Clinical consultations frequently raise scientific, ethical, and legal challenges. While scientific issues may be resolved using an evidence-based medicine approach, ethical theory is needed to justify decision making in the face of ethical conflict.

Bioethics, medical law, and human rights: a South African perspective provides the conceptual background and analytic skills necessary to assist with the resolution of ethical dilemmas encountered in the South African healthcare environment. It uses case studies to help the healthcare team to identify and analyse ethical, moral and value concepts, and to apply these concepts to scenarios that they may encounter daily.

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Part 1 focuses on the foundations of ethics, covering key ethical theories and principles, including African philosophy. It also introduces medical law, explores the relationship between health and human rights, and connects theoretical concepts to their practical application in healthcare.

Part 2 examines a range of healthcare issues that present ethical challenges, including HIV/AIDS, organ transplantation, mental healthcare, euthanasia, human reproduction, genetics, and ethical considerations when working with children.

Part 3 addresses current and emerging issues in healthcare, including new biotechnologies such as genomics, increasing ethical complexity, big data and artificial intelligence, ethical considerations during pandemics, and the impact of climate change.

With healthcare placing greater emphasis on ethical practice through guidance from the Health Professions Council of South Africa and higher education institutions, together with the growing number of healthcare-related legal cases, Bioethics, Medical Law, and Human Rights is a valuable resource for students studying health sciences, law, and philosophy, as well as healthcare professionals in practice.

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