Bioethics, Human Rights and Health Law

Professor Dhai is a leading authority in bioethics in South Africa. She has played a pivotal role in curriculum development for the Health Professions Council of South Africa for undergraduate health sciences students in Bioethics, Human Rights and Health Law and has taught these disciplines to undergraduate and postgraduate students. She has also run several workshops in research ethics and serves on several institutional and national ethics bodies. She is currently serving a second term as Deputy Chair of the National Health Research Ethics Council. Professor Dhai also plays a significant role in the development of regulations and bioethics policy at local and international levels. She is widely published in bioethics and is the editor-in-chief of the South African Journal of Bioethics and Law and an associate editor of the South African Medical Journal. Professor David J McQuoid-Mason is a Professor of Law at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, a Fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and Visiting Professor at Strathclyde University, Scotland. He has taught LLM programmes in Law and Medical Practice and HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and the Law; and Medical Law and Ethics at the Nelson R Mandela Medical School. He has run numerous workshops on Medical Law and Ethics throughout the country. He has facilitated at NGO training workshops on Street Law, Human Rights and Democracy in over 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.

Part 1: Introduction to Bioethics, Human Rights and Health Law: Principles and Practice – Background; Chapter 1 Ethical concepts, theories and principles and their application to healthcare; Chapter 2. Codes of healthcare ethics; Chapter 3. Health and human rights; Chapter 4. Health law – the basics Part 2: Specific Topics; Chapter 5. Professionalism and the healthcare practitioner–patient relationship; Chapter 6. Consent; Chapter 7. Confidentiality; Chapter 8. Medical malpractice and professional negligence; Chapter 9. Reproductive health; Chapter 10. Issues in genetics; Chapter 11. Use of human tissue; Chapter 12. End of life issues; Chapter 13. HIV and AIDS; Chapter 14. Resource allocation; Chapter 15. Business ethics – the healthcare context; Chapter 16. Human health and the environment; Chapter 17. The ethics of research