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2021 Reading Guide outlining all topics covered with list of prescribed and further readings....

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Health Law LAW5428

Reading Guide 2021

Chief Examiner: Dr Ronli Sifris ([email protected])

© FACULTY OF LAW, MONASH UNIVERSITY. This reading guide is provided for use only by students enrolled in the Master of Laws subject LAW5428 for private study and research (revised and updated 2021).

READING The prescribed text for this unit is Ben White, Fiona McDonald and Lindy Willmott, Health Law in Australia (Lawbook Co, 3rd ed, 2018) (referred to hereafter as White et al). The prescribed reading is set out at the start of each topic. Students must read the chapters and other materials specified in each topic. Non-textbook prescribed reading will be posted in the relevant topic area on the unit Moodle page. For each topic an indicative topic guide and list of further reading is provided. Some additional topical materials may be provided via Moodle or in hard copy during seminars. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES The following resources may also be useful for Health Law: Books • •

Ian Freckelton and Kerry Petersen (eds), Tensions and Traumas in Health Law (Federation Press, 2017) Ian Kerridge, Michael Lowe and Cameron Stewart, Ethics and Law for the Health Professions (Federation Press, 4th ed, 2013)

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Janine McIlwraith and Bill Madden, Health Care & The Law (Lawbook Co, 6th ed, 2014) Alexander C Wagenaar and Scott Burris, Public Health Law Research: Theory and Methods (Jossey-Bass, 2013) Lawrence O. Gostin, Global Health Law (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014) Lawrence O. Gostin, Public Health Law: power, duty, restraint (University of California Press, 3rd ed, 2016) Belinda Bennett, Michael D. A. Freeman and Sarah Hawkes (eds) Law and Global Health (Oxford University Press, 2014) Brigit Toebes, The right to health. A multi-country study of law, policy and practice (Den Haag: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2014) Thérèse. Murphy, Health and Human Rights (Hart Publishing, 2013) Anne-Maree Farrell, John Devereux, Isabel Karpin and Penelope Weller (eds) Health Law: Frameworks and Context (Cambridge University Press, 2017) Catherine Stanton, Sarah Devaney, Anne-Maree Farrell and Alexander Mullock (eds) Pioneering Healthcare Law: Essays in Honour of Margaret Brazier (Routledge, 2016)

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Key specialty journals • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Annals of Internal Medicine Australia and New Zealand Journal of Public Health BMC Public Health British Medical Journal BMJ Quality and Safety Journal of the American Medical Association Medical Journal of Australia New England Journal of Medicine PLoS Medicine The Lancet American Journal of Bioethics Bioethics Clinical Ethics Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Journal of Medical Ethics Social Science and Medicine Sociology of Health and Illness Journal of Law and Medicine (Aus) Medical Law Review Journal of Law Medicine and Ethics Health and Human Rights

Blogs, twitter and a podcast (Note that these are not academic sources but are a good starting point for health law news) • Bill Madden’s WordPress Site (Aus): http://billmaddens.wordpress.com (@BillMadden) • Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law: http://aabhl.org (@AABHL) • Ethics and Health Law News (Aus and international): http://ehln.org • Harvard Petrie Flom Centre Bill of Health Blog (US): http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/billofhealth (@PetrieFlom) • Network for Public Health Law (US): https://www.networkforphl.org (@networkforphl) • Public Health Law Research (US): http://publichealthlawresearch.org (@PHLR_Temple) • The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/au/health • BioNews (UK) http://www.bionews.org.uk/home • Centre for Health Law and Society (Aus): http://www.latrobe.edu.au/law/research/chls (@HealthLawSoc) • The Week in Health Law podcast (US): http://twihl.com (@WeekinHealthLaw)

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UNIT SCHEDULE

Week 1

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TOPIC(S) Topic 1 Introduction to Health Law in Australia

Week 2

Topic 2 Consent to Treatment

Week 3

Topic 3 Public Health Law Topic 4 Medical Error & Patient Redress

Week 4

OTHER

Assessment 2 Plans due: 4pm on Thursday, 9 September 2021

Topic 4 Medical Error & Patient Redress Topic 5 Health and Human Rights Topic 6 End of life Decision-Making

Week 5

Topic 6 End of Life Decision-Making continued Topic 7 Regulating Reproduction

Week 6

Topic 7 Regulating Reproduction continued Topic 8 Health Records and Data

Assessment 2 Video presentation due: 4pm on Thursday, 7 October 2021

Revision

TOPIC 1

INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH LAW IN AUSTRALIA

Prescribed reading • White et al, Chapters 1, 2 (pp 25-56 only), 3 Further reading • Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council, Review of the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme for Health Professionals (August 2014) • M M Bismark et al, ‘Mandatory Reports of Concerns about the Health, Performance and Conduct of Health Practitioners’ (2014) 201(7) Medical Journal of Australia 1 • H Draper and T Sorrell, ‘Patients’ Responsibilities in Medical Ethics’ (2002) 16 Bioethics 335 • K Elkin, ‘Medical Practitioner Regulation: Is it all About Protecting the Public?’ (2014) 21 Journal of Law and Medicine 682 • K Elkin, MJ Spittal and DM Studdert, ‘Doctors Disciplined for Professional Misconduct in Australia and New Zealand, 2000-2009’ (2011) 194 Medical Journal of Australia 452 • J Miola, ‘The Relationship between Medical Law and Ethics’ (2006) 1 Clinical Ethics 22 • J Montgomery, ‘Law and the Demoralisation of Medicine’ (2003) 26 Legal Studies 185

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M Parker, ‘All in the Family: Law, Medicine and Bioethics’ (2008) 15 Journal of Law and Medicine 505 T Ruger, ‘Health Law’s Coherence Anxiety’ (2008) 96 Georgetown Law Review 625 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australia’s Health 2014 (2014)

Topic guide 1.1 Introduction to Health Law • What is Health Law? • Social and economic forces that shape Health Law • Significance of Health Law 1.2 Medical and Health Ethics and Law • Norms, authority, morality and law • Medical ethics and professional culture 1.3 • • • • • •

TOPIC 2

The Legal Framework of the Australian Health System The Constitutional framework Health funding Health systems and services Health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Resource allocation Safety and quality of health services

CONSENT TO TREATMENT

Prescribed reading • White et al, Chapters 5 & 6 Further reading • PBU & NJE v Mental Health Tribunal and ors [2018] VSC 564 (Bell J) • K Eagle and C J Ryan, ‘Potentially Incapable Patients Objecting to Treatment: Doctors’ Powers and Duties’ (2014) 200(6) Medical Journal of Australia 352 • G Gillett, ‘The Evolution of Informed Consent’ (2012) 19 Journal of Law and Medicine 673 • D Mendelson, ‘Minors’ Decision-Making Capacity to Refuse Life-Saving and Life-Sustaining Treatment: Legal and Psychiatric Perspectives’ (2014) 21 Journal of Law and Medicine 762 • A Teoludzka and T P Bartholomew, ‘Queensland General Practitioners’ Applications of the “Mature Minor” Principle: The Role of Patient Age and Gender’ (2010) 18 Journal of Law and Medicine 390 • L Rosenbaum, ‘The Paternalism Preference – Choosing Unshared Decision-Making’ (2015) 373(3) New England Journal of Medicine (13 August 2015) • P A Roberts, ‘The Help That John Does Not Want’ (2014) 200(6) Medical Journal of Australia 347 • J McIlwraith and B Madden, Health Care & The Law (Lawbook Co, 6th ed, 2014) Part II • A Farrell et al (eds) Health Law: Frameworks and Context (Cambridge University Press, 2017) Ch 9. • A B and G Kidson Gerber, ‘‘Avoidable’ death of a pregnant Jehovah's Witness with acute promyelocytic leukaemia: ethical considerations and the internal conflicts and challenges encountered by practitioners’ (2015) 45(4) Internal Medicine Journal 461.

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The involuntary or coerced sterilisation of people with disabilities / intersex people in Australia (Australian Parliament, Senate Committees on Community Affairs, 2013): http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/In voluntary_Sterilisation

Topic guide 2.1 General principles • Liability in the absence of consent (trespass) • Elements of valid consent • Informed consent • Refusal of treatment • Legislative recognition of the need for consent • Exceptions to the legal requirement of consent 2.2 Children and consent to medical treatment • Infants and younger children • Court power to override decisions of parents and children • Older children: Gillick competence • Special cases requiring court authority

TOPIC 3

PUBLIC HEALTH LAW

Prescribed reading • White et al, Chapter 17 Further reading • L Gostin, Public Health Law: Power, Duty Restraint (2nd ed, University of California Press, 2008) • S Burris et al, ‘Making the Case for Laws That Improve Health: A Framework for Public Health Law Research’ (2010) 88 The Milbank Quarterly 169 • R Haffajee et al ‘What is a Public Health Emergency?’ (2014) 371(11) New England Journal of Medicine 986 • R ‘Mapping the Scope and Opportunities for Public Health Law in Liberal Democracies’ (2007) 35 The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 571 • R Magnusson and B Reeve, ‘“Steering” Private Regulation? A New Strategy for Reducing Population Salt Intake in Australia’ (2014) 36(2) Sydney Law Review 255 • J Wilson, ‘Why it’s Time to Stop Worrying About Paternalism in Health Policy’ (2011) 4 Public Health Ethics 269 • DM Studdert et al, ‘Searching for Public Health Law’s Sweet Spot: The Regulation of SugarSweetened Beverages’ (2015) 12(7) PLoS Medicine e1001848. oi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001848 • J and B Madden, Health Care & The Law (Lawbook Co, 6th ed, 2014) Part VI • S Burris, ‘From Health Care Law to Social Determinants of Health: A Public Health Law Research Perspective’ (2010) 159 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1549.

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Topic guide 3.1 Introduction to public health law • What is public health? • The scope of public health law 3.2 The emergence of public health laws in Australia • Development and framework 3.3 Communicable diseases • Reconciling rights and responsibilities • Notification of diagnosed cases • Testing • Management of persons who pose a risk to the community • Criminal law • Immunisation • Public health emergencies 3.4 Non-communicable diseases • Tobacco • Alcohol • Obesity

TOPIC 4

MEDICAL ERROR AND PATIENT REDRESS

Prescribed reading: • Anne-Maree Farrell, John Devereux, Isabel Karpin and Penelope Weller (eds) Health Law: Frameworks and Context (Cambridge University Press, 2017) Chapters 8 & 11 (On Moodle) Further reading: • White et al, Chapter 8 • Senate Community Affairs References Committee, Number of women in Australia who have had transvaginal mesh implants and related matters: • M Blake, ‘Loss of Chance in Medical Negligence: A Lost Cause’ (2009) 17 Tort Law Review 123 • B Madden and J McIllwraith, Australian Medical Liability (LexisNexis, 4th ed, 2021) • B McDonald, ‘The Impact of the Civil Liability Legislation on Fundamental Policies and Principles of the Common Law of Negligence’ (2006) 14 Torts Law Journal 268 • L Skene and H Luntz, ‘Effects of Tort Law Reform on Medical Liability’ (2005) 79 Australian Law Journal 345 • J Healy and P Dugdale (eds), Patient Safety First: Responsive Regulation in Health Care (Allen & Unwin, 2009) • J Healy, Improving Health Care Safety and Quality: Reluctant Regulators (Ashgate, 2011) • M Bismark et al, ‘Identification of Doctors at Risk of Recurrent Complaints: A National Study of Healthcare Complaints in Australia’ (2013) BMJ Quality and Safety (doi:10.1136/bmjqs2012-001691) • R Paterson, ‘Not So Random: Patient Complaints and ‘Frequent Flier’ Doctors’ (2013) 22 BMJ Quality & Safety 525

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Victorian Health Services Commissioner, Study of People Lodging Complaints with the Victorian Health Services Commissioner: Final Report (June 2013) (bit.ly/Xh4fK9) Victorian Auditor-General, Patient Safety in Victorian Public Hospitals (March 2016) Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, A Review of Hospital Safety and Quality Assurance in Victoria (Discussion Paper, March 2016) J Millbank, 'Health Practitioner Regulation: Has the National Law Produced National Outcomes in Serious Disciplinary Matters?' (2019) Federal Law Review 47(4) pp. 631-654 J Millbank, 'Serious misconduct of health professionals in disciplinary tribunals under the National Law 2010–17' (2019) Australian Health Review

Topic Guide 4.1 Regulating Patient Safety and Patient Redress • The governance of safety and quality in healthcare in Australia • Patient Redress • Options for Reform 4.2 Medical Negligence • Introduction • General Duty of Care • Breach of Duty • Damage & Causation • Case Study

TOPIC 5

HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Prescribed reading • White et al, Chapter 4 Further reading • A Farrell et al (eds) Health Law: Frameworks and Context (Cambridge University Press, 2017) Chapter 5 (On Moodle) • T Murphy, Health and Human Rights (Hart Publishing, 2013) • United Nations General Comment No. 22 (2016) on the Right to sexual and reproductive health (article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) • A Ely Yamin and A Duger, ‘Adjudicating Health-Related Rights: Proposed Considerations for the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and Other SupraNational Tribunals’ (2016) 17(1) Chicago Journal of International Law 80 • J Harrington and M Stuttaford (eds), Global Health & Human Rights (Routledge, 2010) • M Brennan, ‘The Good, the Bad and the Unhealthy: An Assessment of Australia’s Compliance with the International Right to Health’ (2015) 39(2) University of Western Australia Law Review 373 Topic guide 5.1 •

Human rights law in Australia Role of international law

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Charters of rights

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The international legal right to health Minimum or core obligations Integrating human rights and the social determinants of health

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Litigation and the human right to health International decisions

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TOPIC 6

END OF LIFE DECISION-MAKING

Prescribed reading • White et al, Chapter 13 • Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Vic) Further reading • Special Issue of The Conversation on Victoria’s assisted dying legislation (20 October 2017) • Australian Medical Association, Position Statement on End of Life Care and Advance Care Planning 2014 https://ama.com.au/position-statement/position-statement-end-life-care-andadvance-care-planning-2014 • L Bartels and M Otlowski, ‘A Right to Die? Euthanasia and the Law in Australia’ (2010) 17 Journal of Law and Medicine 532 • I Freckleton, ‘Patients’ Decisions to Die: The Emerging Australian Jurisprudence’ (2011) Journal of Law and Medicine 427 • J Manning, ‘Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment from a Patient in a Minimally Conscious State’ (2012) 19(3) Journal of Law and Medicine 430 • A Mullock, ‘Overlooking the Criminally Compassionate: What are the Implications of Prosecutorial Policy on Encouraging or Assisting Suicide?’ (2010) 18(4) Medical Law Review 442 • J Rietjens et al, ‘Two Decades of Research on Euthanasia from the Netherlands: What Have We Learnt and What Questions Remain?’ (2009) 6 Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 271 • S Smith, J Werren and N Yuksel, ‘Avoiding a Fate Worse than Death: An Argument for Legalising Voluntary Physician-based Euthanasia’ (2012) 20(1) Journal of Law and Medicine 184 • B White and L Willmott, ‘First Reported Assisted Suicide Conviction and Sentence in Queensland’ (2012) 32(2) Queensland Lawyer 68 • B White et al, ‘Doctors’ Knowledge of the Law on Withholding and Withdrawing LifeSustaining Medical Treatment’ (2014) 201(4) Medical Journal of Australia 1 • L Willmott et al, ‘The Legal Role of Medical Professionals in Decisions to Withhold or Withdraw Life-Sustaining Treatment: Part 3 (Victoria)’ (2011) Journal of Law and Medicine 773 • R Dworkin, Life’s Dominion (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011) • J Keown, Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy: An Argument Against Legalisation (Cambridge University Press, 2002). • Parliament of Victoria, Inquiry into end of life choices (Final Report, June 2016). • A Farrell et al (eds) Health Law: Frameworks and Context (Cambridge University Press, 2017) Chapters 15 & 16 • J McIlwraith and B Madden, Health Care & The Law (Lawbook Co, 6th ed, 2014) Chapter 9

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Topic guide 6.1 Euthanasia and assisted suicide • Introduction and definitions • Homicide and euthanasia • Suicide and assisted suicide • Factors in the relevant charge • Legalised schemes of active voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide • Arguments for and against legalization 6.2 The status in Victoria

TOPIC 7

REGULATING REPRODUCTION

Prescribed reading • White et al, Chapters 10, 11 & 12 Further reading • S Allan (ed), ‘Special Issue on Donor Conception in the Context of Assisted Reproductive Technology’ (2012) 19(4) Journal of Law and Medicine. • H Baker et al, ‘New Assisted Reproductive Technology Laws in Victoria: A Genuine Overhaul or Just a Cut and Paste?’ (2011) 18(4) Journal of Law and Medicine 835 • M De Souza, ‘The Regulation of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: Is There Anything the United Kingdom Can Learn from the Australian Experience?’ (2012) 20(1) Journal of Law and Medicine 165 • E Haimes, K Taylor and I Turkmendag, ‘Eggs, Ethics and Exploitation? Investigating Women’s Experiences of an Egg Sharing Scheme’ (2012) 34(8) Sociology of Health and Illness 1199 • Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, Donor Conception Practices in Australia (2011) • M Taylor-Sands, A Relational Approach to Assisted Reproduction: Re-evaluating the Welfare of the Child Principle in Selecting Saviour Siblings (Routledge, 2012) • Special Issue, ‘Law, Policy and Practice Concerning Stored Embryos in Assisted Reproduction’ (2013) 20(4) Journal of Law and Medicine. • J Millbank, ‘Rethinking ‘Commercial’ Surrogacy in Australia’ (2014) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (published online ahead of print on 12 July 2014) • Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority briefing on the Assisted Reproductive Treatment Further Amendment Act 2014 (Vic) • NHMRC Ethical guidelines on the use of assisted reproductive technology in clinical practice and research (2017) https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/guidelines-publications/e79 • M A Stafford-Bell, Sam G Everingham and Karin Hammarberg, ‘Outcomes of Surrogacy Undertaken by Australians Overseas’ (2014) 201(6) Medical Journal of Australia 330 • J Millbank, ‘The New Surrogacy Parentage Laws in Australia: Cautious Regulation or “25 Brick Walls”?’ (2011) 35(1) Melbourne University Law Review 165 • R Sifris, Karinne Ludlow, Adiva Sifris (eds) ‘Special Issue: Commercial Surrogacy - What Role for Law?’ (2015) 23 Journal of Law and Medicine. • R Sifris, 'Surrogacy' in Ian Freckelton and Kerry Petersen (eds) Tensions and Traumas in Health Law (Federation Press, 2017) • R Sifris, ‘Tasmania’s Reproductive Health (Access to Terminations) Act 2013: An Analysis of Conscientious Objection to Abortion and the ‘Obligation to Refer’’ (2015) 22 Journal of Law

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and Medicine 2015. R Sifris and S Belton, ‘Australia: Abortion and Human Rights’ (2017) 19(1) Health and Human Rights Journal 209-220 D Mendelson, ‘Decriminalisation of Abortion Performed by Qualified Health Practitioners under the Abortion Law Reform Act 2008 (Vic)’ (2012) 19(4) Journal of Law and Medicine 651 R Sifris, Reproductive Freedom, Torture and International Human Rights: Challenging the Masculinisation of Torture (Routledge, 2014) R Sifris, ‘A Woman’s Right to Choose: Human Rights and Ab...