Canadian Health Law and Policy, 2nd Edition provides concise
surveys of the current state of law and practice in each of the significant
subject areas of health law.
Featuring chapters written by leading
authorities from across Canada, the 2nd Edition incorporates the latest
developments in legislation, case law, scientific advances as well as the
latest trends in the funding and administration of Medicare.
New
material and issues addressed include:
- New chapter addressing the civil liability of physicians under
Quebec law, including issues around professional secrecy and the duties to
inform, to obtain consent, to treat and to attend
- New federal and provincial privacy legislation and its effect
on hospitals and health care providers
- Political and economic forces such as changing funding levels,
closures of hospitals, and the net emigration of physicians and nurses
- Private financing approaches suggested by the federal Senate
Committee and the Alberta Mazankowski Committee
- Federal government proposals to limit or prohibit assisted
human reproduction technologies, such as cloning
- Supreme Court of Canada’s decisions in Latimer
(euthanasia) and Dobson (liability of mother in tort to unborn fetus)
- The legal implications of such advances in medical science as
the mapping of the human genome, embryo and stem cell research, and
cloning.
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