Book/Printed Material Fundamentals of health law in Uganda

Title

• Fundamentals of health law in Uganda

Names

• Twinomugisha, Ben, author

Created / Published

• South Africa : Pretoria University Law Press, PULP, 2015.

Contents

• Nature, scope and sources of health law -- The right to health -- The normative content of the right to health -- Challenges to realisation of the right to health -- Mapping out the challenges -- Strategies for tackling challenges to realisation of the right to health -- Public health law and human rights -- Public health legislation and infectious or communicable diseases -- Mental health law -- Regulation of health care professionals -- Medical and dental practice -- Nursing and midwifery -- Allied health profession -- Pharmacy -- Traditional medical practice -- Malpractice litigation -- Vicarious liability -- Burden of proof -- Defences to a malpractice action -- Remedies -- Criminal liability for negligence -- Patients' rights -- Patients' Charter: Patient's rights and responsibilities -- Why consent to treatment -- Position of children -- Research involving humans as participants -- The international framework -- National framework -- Liability in research involving human as participants.

Headings

• -  Medical care--Law and legislation--Uganda
• -  Medical laws and legislation--Uganda

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242).
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 electronic resource (xix, 242 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

• KTW157.3

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2020717673

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2020717673

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2020717673

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