Foundational Principles of South African Medical Law

This book deals with the central and foundational legal principles of medical law and health care law in South Africa.

The book offers an authoritative, substantive and integrative analysis and discussion of the Constitution and its interface with, and broad impact on, medical law and health care services in South Africa; the South African health care system; the regulation of the medical profession in South Africa; the legal basis of the doctor-patient relationship relating to the law of contract (in the public- and private sectors); the doctor-patient relationship relating to the law of delict, specifically in the context of health care delivery; professional medical negligence and vicarious liability; grounds of justification of medical interventions and other general defences in medical law; and the patient's privacy and medical confidentiality.