This book is designed to provide healthcare professionals with information on current issues in healthcare law and ethics. Key topics include: the social creation of health law and healthcare; access to healthcare and control of its quality (including the prevention of health crime, as well as civil control); genetics and disability at the beginning of life; vaccination and medical research during life; euthanasia at the end of life and the exercise, control and use of body parts after life. Covers the most current and controversial issues in healthcare law Makes complex legal arguments accessible to the more general reader