Professional Documents
Culture Documents
(Course Outline)
SEMINAR PAPER- 1
Session 2015-16
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EVALUATION SYSTEM
The evaluation system of National Law University Odisha for under graduate
course encourages research, promotes continuous review and ensures
transparent evaluation system. In order to do so, detailed evaluation reports
of mode adopted for assessment in the form of projects, assignments,
presentations, group discussions and the like will be given to the students.
Sabitha, A., Public Health: Enforcement and Law, Amicus Books, The
Icfai University Press
Dr. Lily Srivastava, Law and Medicine, 2nd Edition, Universal Law
Publishing Company
Mason and McCall Smith, Law and Medical Ethics, 9 th Edition, Oxford
University Press
Jain, M.P, Indian Constitutional Law, Lexis Nexis Butterworths Wadhwa,
Nagpur.
MODULE-II
LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL PERSPECTIVE OF MEDICAL PROFESSION
AND MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
1. Basic Principles underlying Doctor-Patient Relationship
a. Existence of Duty of Care
b. Breach of Duty
c. Concept of Vicarious Liability
d. Defences available to Doctors
e. Informed Consent
f. Confidentiality
2. Concept of Medical Negligence
a. Origin and development of the Concept of Medical Negligence
b. Error of judgment and gross negligence
c. Remedies under various law
i. Law of Torts
ii. Criminal Law
iii. Consumer Protection Act
3. Judicial Assessment of the Concept
a. Position Before I.M.A v. V. P. Santha
b. Position Before I.M.A v. V. P. Santha
Suggestive Readings:
Claims, Ashgate
Tapas Kumar Koley, Medical Negligence and the Law in India- Duties,
Marc Stauch and Kay Wheat with John Tingle, Text, Cases and Materials
on Medical Law and Ethics, 4th Edition, Routledge, Taylor and Francis
Group.
N. Sudarshan, Consent and Law: Problems and Perspectives, The Icfai
University Press.
Myrtle Flight, Law, Liability and Ethics, 5 th Edition, Delmar Cengage
Learning.
Charles Foster, Medical Law: A very Short Introduction, Oxford
University Press.
Anoop K Kaushal, Medical Negligence and Legal Remedies, Universal
Law Publication
Shaun D. Pattinson, Medical Law and Ethics, 2 nd Edition, Sweet and
Maxwell
Kerry J Breen, Stephen M Cordner, Colin J H Thomson, Vermon D
Plueckhahn, Good Medical Practice-Professionalism, Ethics and Law,
Sweet Maxwell
Jo Samanta and Ash Samanta, Concentrate Medical Law, Oxford
University Press
Jonathan Herring, Medical Law and Ethics, 5th Edition, Oxford
University Press
Emily Jackson, Medical Law, Text Cases and Materials, 3rd Edition,
Publishing Company
Dr. Nandita Adhikari, Law and Medicine, Central Law Publications
Jonathan Herring, Medical Law, Core text Series, Oxford University
Press
Suggestive Readings:
Group.
Charles Foster, Medical Law: A very Short Introduction, Oxford
University Press.
Dr. Lily Srivastava, Law and Medicine, 2nd Edition, Universal Law
Publishing Company
Emily Jackson, Medical Law, Text Cases and Materials, 3rd Edition,
Maxwell
Jean McHale and Marie Fox, Health Care Law, 2nd Edition, Thomson
Sweet Maxwell
Jonathan Herring, Medical Law and Ethics, 5th Edition, Oxford
University Press
Claudia Carr, Unlocking Medical Law and Ethics, Hodder Education
MODULE IV
ARTIFICIAL REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES AND SURROGACY
1. Various Assisted/Artificial Reproductive Techniques
2. Meaning and Types of Surrogacy (Natural, Gestational, Commercial and
Altruistic Surrogacy)
3. Legal Position in Other Countries
4. Inadequacy of law- Constitutional and Legal Aspects of Surrogacy in
India
5. The ICMRs National Guidelines for Accreditation, Supervision and
Regulation of ART Clinics in India, 2005
6. Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill, 2010
7. Socio-legal and Ethical Issues
Suggestive Readings:
University Press
Jonathan Herring, Medical Law and Ethics, 5th Edition, Oxford
University Press
Emily Jackson, Medical Law, Text Cases and Materials, 3rd Edition,
Publishing Company
Dr. Nandita Adhikari, Law and Medicine, Central Law Publications
MODULE- V
MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY
1. Position before Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act 1971- Shah
Committee Report
2. Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act 1971- An Overview
3. Socio-legal and Ethical Issues
4. Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Act, 2002
Suggestive Readings:
Group.
Emily Jackson, Medical Law, Text Cases and Materials, 3rd Edition,
Maxwell
Jean McHale and Marie Fox, Health Care Law, 2nd Edition, Thomson
Sweet Maxwell
University Press
Claudia Carr, Unlocking Medical Law and Ethics, Hodder Education
MODULE- VI
PRENATAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
1. Salient Features of Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques, Regulations &
Prevention of Misuse Act 1994
2. Abuse of Technology and its Impact
3. Legal Measures
Suggestive Readings:
1994
Marc Stauch and Kay Wheat with John Tingle, Text, Cases and Materials
on Medical Law and Ethics, 4th Edition, Routledge, Taylor and Francis
Group.
Claudia Carr, Unlocking Medical Law and Ethics, Hodder Education
MODULE- VII
EUTHANASIA AND PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDES
1. Development of the Concept
2. Kinds of Euthanasia
3. Legal and Ethical Issues
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Marc Stauch and Kay Wheat with John Tingle, Text, Cases and Materials
on Medical Law and Ethics, 4th Edition, Routledge, Taylor and Francis
Group.
Dr. Lily Srivastava, Law and Medicine, 2nd Edition, Universal Law
Publishing Company
Emily Jackson, Medical Law, Text Cases and Materials, 3rd Edition,
University Press.
Jonathan Herring, Medical Law and Ethics, 5th Edition, Oxford
University Press
Claudia Carr, Unlocking Medical Law and Ethics, Hodder Education
Mason and McCall Smith, Law and Medical Ethics, 9 th Edition, Oxford
University Press
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