Getting Started

Key texts for LWN164

Ethics and law for the health professions (4th ed.) by Ian Kerridge, Michael Lowe, Cameron Stewart
Publication Date: 2013
This text has been widely used for training doctors, nurses and other health professionals throughout Australia and the Pacific and this new edition updates many topics to reflect events that have occurred since the first edition was published, as well as including subsequent changes in law and ethical thought.
Health Law in Australia (3rd ed.) by Ben White, Fiona McDonald, Lindy Wilmott
Publication Date: 2018
In this important field that continues to give rise to challenges for society, the book takes a logical, structured approach to explain the breadth of this area of law across all Australian jurisdictions

Readings

A Companion to Bioethics by Helga Kuhse (Editor); Peter Singer (Editor)
Publication Date: 2009
This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.
Disabled People and the Right to Life by L. J. Clements; Janet Read (Editor)
Publication Date: 2008
Explore how disabled people's right to life is understood in different national contexts and the ways in which they are - or are not - afforded protection under the law, emphasizing the social, cultural and historical forces and circumstances which have promoted disabled people's right to life or legitimated its violation.
Public Health Disasters: a Global Ethical Framework by Michael Olusegun Afolabi
Publication Date: 2018
This book presents the first critical examination of the overlapping ethical, sociocultural, and policy-related issues surrounding disasters, global bioethics, and public health ethics. This title is of immense benefit to bioethics scholars, public and global health policy experts, as well as graduate students working in the area of global health, public health ethics, and disaster bioethics.
Health Law's Kaleidoscope by Belinda Bennett
Publication Date: 2016
This book deals with a number of themes - including globalization, health and regulation - and how they occur in the contemporary legal, health and ethical context. It identifies the core values and concerns that inform current debates in health law and regulation and discusses how they will develop in the future.
Patients with Passports by Glenn Cohen
Publication Date: 2014
Medical tourism is a growing industry involving millions of patients who travel abroad each year to get health care. Cohen examines issues such as extraterritorial criminalization, exploitation, immigration, and protection of children.
Applied Law and Ethics for Health Professionals by Carla Caldwell Stanford; Valerie J. Connor
Publication Date: 2019
On a daily basis, healthcare professionals are faced with many ethical situations along with legal implications. Applied Law and Ethics for Health Professionals, Second Edition tackles ethical situations and the potential legal impacts that many healthcare professionals may face in their careers and asks them to consider their own personal values system and use reasoning skills to come to an informed outcome.

Discovering sources of law

Primary sources of law are legislation and case law. They establish the law on a given topic.

Secondary sources interpret and comment upon the law. They are good research aids and can help you to understand the basics of legal topics. They also provide references to key legislation and leading cases for assignment topics. Secondary sources include:

books
journal articles
legal encyclopedias
Law Reform Commission reports
loose-leaf services, commentary

So, begin your research using secondary sources, and if you need to, then check the primary sources.

Getting Started

Key texts for LWN164

Readings

Discovering sources of law

Global links and information

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