Medical Ethics Today

The British Medical Association is the professional association and registered trade union for doctors in the United Kingdom. The association does not regulate or certify doctors, a responsibility which lies with the General Medical Council.

List of statues and regulations. List of cases.

Where to find legal cases online.

Medical Ethics Committee.

Acknowledgements.

Preface to the third edition.

Introduction: Bridging the gap between theory and practice: the BMA’s approach to medical ethics.

1: The doctor-patient relationship.

2: Consent, choice and refusal: adults with capacity.

3: Treating adults who lack capacity.

4: Children and young people.

5: Confidentiality.

6: Health records.


7: Contraception, abortion, and birth.

8: Assisted reproduction.

9: Genetics.

10: Caring for patients at the end of life.

11: Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide.

12: Responsibilities after a patient’s death.

13: Prescribing and administering medication.

Chapter 14: Research and innovative treatment.

15: Emergency situations.

16: Doctors with dual obligations.

17: Providing treatment and care in detention settings.

18: Education and training.

19: Teamwork, referral, delegation and shared care.

20: Public health dimensions of medical practice.

21: Reducing risk, clinical error, and poor performance.

AppendixA: Hippocratic Oath.

Appendix B: Declaration of Geneva.

Appendix C: Declaration of a new doctor, as devised by Imperial College School of Medicine graduating year of 2001.

Index.