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Choose an area that you have studied. Explain the legal and ethical issues it raises and analyse whether or not the law deals with these adequately. Are there any improvements you would suggest?
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Choose an area that you have studied. Explain the legal and ethical issues it raises and analyse whether or not the law deals with these adequately. Are there any improvements you would suggest? The area I have chosen to examine is that of consent to treatment, particularly in relation to children. There are a number of reasons for this choice. Firstly it is an area through which everyone must pass before he or she becomes legally competent to consent, thus is something everyone can relate to and at least to some extent understand the difficulties that arise from it. Secondly while certain areas or aspects of children consenting, or rather not having the right to consent, may not prove to be contentious there are particular areas, for example that of medical research, in which it may seem questionable to allow someone other than the subject of that research to be the...
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