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Capacity toolkit
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For government and community workers, professionals, families and carers on assessing if person has capacity to make legal, financial, medical and personal decisions. Includes advance care directives, entering into contracts, making a will, power of attorney and enduring guardianship.
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A Law Books title
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Human genetic information - Hot Topics series no 36
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DNA, genes and chromosomes, genetic testing, and the regulation of genetic information; and implications such as privacy, discrimination, insurance, medical research. It also deals with hot issues such as cloning and stem cell research.
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Australian Law Reform Commission
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A Hot Topics title
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Health law Chapter 28: The law handbook 11th edition
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Covers consumers rights in health care, medical negligence, making complaints to registration boards and the Health Care Complaints Commission, the Mental Health Act and mental health issues, product safety, medical research and ethics, reproductive technology, HIV/AIDS.
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Where:
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Check your public library.
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A Tool Kit title
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Sex and the law: a guide for health and community workers in NSW
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Medical treatment, consent, provision of contraception to young people, confidentiality, assisted reproduction, sexual assault, and sexual health issues.
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Author:
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FPA Health and Christine Read
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Check your public library.
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A Tool Kit title
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Health and the law - Hot Topics series no 64
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Regulation of healthcare such as medicines, medical treatment, hostpitals, health professionals, privacy of information and emerging medical technologies. Explains concepts of 'duty of care' and 'informed consent', and gives examples of 'end of life' court decisions and other ethical dilemmas relating to healthcare.
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Author:
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Faunce, Thomas
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Where:
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Check your public library.
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A Hot Topics title
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Title:
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Human genetic information - Hot Topics series no 36
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About:
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DNA, genes and chromosomes, genetic testing, and the regulation of genetic information; and implications such as privacy, discrimination, insurance, medical research. It also deals with hot issues such as cloning and stem cell research.
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Author:
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Australian Law Reform Commission
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Where:
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Check your public library.
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A Hot Topics title
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Law and medical practice: rights, duties, claims and defences 3rd edition
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Explains civil and criminal law principles relevant to medical practice, privacy laws covering confidentiality and the patient's right of access to medical records. Includes chapters on abortion, duty of care, consent to treatment, issues relating to children.
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Author:
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Skene, Loane
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Where:
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A Law Books title
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Title:
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Elder law in Australia
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All areas of law regarding older Australians including deceased estates, negligence, elders in society, elder abuse (financial and competence contexts), confidentiality and discrimination issues, age and disability discrimination, retirement village living, delegated decision making, and challenges to wills and estates.
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Author:
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Lewis, Rodney
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Where:
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A Law Books title
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Australian health and medical law reporter
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Covers the registration of practitioners, the management of hospitals, nursing homes, day procedure centres, mental health institutions and other agencies, clinical care, medical negligence, consent, drug use, medical litigation, patients rights, forensic medicine, dying with dignity and palliative care, public health, ethics of practice. Location number Ref/NQ344.94041/2
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Where:
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Available from the Legal Information Access Centre, State Library of NSW
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