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Part 1. The health care system 1: Keith Syrett: The organisation of health care 2: Paula Case: Regulating health care professions Part 2. Clinical negligence 3: Rachel Mulheron: Duties in contract and tort 4: Philippa Whipple QC and Philip Havers QC: Breach of duty 5: Stephen Todd: Actions arising from birth 6: Richard Goldberg: Causation and defences 7: Keith Syrett: Institutional liability Part 3. Patients' rights 8: Jean McHale: Consent to treatment: the competent patient 9: Neil Allen and Sir James Munby: The test for capacity 10: Neil Allen and Sir James Munby: Consent to treatment: patients lacking capacity and children 11: Judith Laing and Nicola Glover-Thomas: Mental health law 12: Mark Taylor: Confidentiality and data protection 13: Jean McHale: Clinical research Part 4. The law and reproduction 14: Michael Freeman: Medically assisted reproduction 15: Michael Freeman: Reproductive genetics 16: Emily Jackson: Abortion Part 5. Medicinal products and devices 17: Christopher Hodges: The regulation of medicinal products and medical devices 18: Richard Goldberg: Products liability Part 6. Regulating human material 19: Jean McHale: The legal regulation of the use of human material 20: Amanda Warren-Jones: Patenting and the human body Part 7. The end of life 21: Jonathan Herring: Ending life 22: Murray Earle: Death