Masters Degrees (Medical Law)
Recent Submissions
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Does the South African law and policy framework facilitate adolescent access to HIV prevention tools?
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The clinical and human rights challenges pertaining to HIV/AIDS and TB co-infection in South Africa.
(2014)Prior to 1990, HIV/AIDS and TB co infection was not a major public health threat in South Africa (SA). The serious ignorance and negligence on the part of then SA government with regard to HIV/AIDS led to the increase of ... -
Electronic health records : what measures health professionals can take to protect patient data?
(2017)Electronic health records use in South Africa is limited. Globally, increased efforts are being made to digitalise medical records into one interoperable system.. Due to the nature of the transmission and storage of such ... -
Moral rights conferred onto foetus to protect the notion of potential life. Is there need to amend and develop legislation in South Africa to accord legal protection to a viable foetus?
(2017)The aim of this dissertation is to assess the legal status of the foetus within the legislative parameters of South Africa. I will look at the fundamental reproductive rights of a women as envisaged in the Constitution of ... -
A legal analysis of trade in personal information regarding human gamete donors.
(2018)The aim of this dissertation is to legally analyse whether personal information concerning gamete donors can be traded in South Africa, particularly by South African gamete banks and agencies. As business enterprises, ... -
Consensual sexual offences - should we make our youth sexual offenders? : a critical review on the Teddy Bear case.
(2018)No abstract provided. -
Physician assisted suicide in South Africa : the constitution and the socio-economic dilemma.
(2018)No abstract provided. -
The legal and ethical implications of involuntary detention of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) patients in South Africa
With South Africa battling a TB/HIV epidemic that is one of the highest in the world, drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) has been an issue of concern lately, due to its virulence and potential fatality. DR-TB is usually ... -
The perceptions of Durban physicians in the handling of impaired doctors.
(2018)No abstract provided. -
Electronic health records: What measures health professionals can take to protect patient data?
(2018)No abstract available. -
Desiring death: a critical analysis of advanced directives within the South African legal framework.
(2018)No abstract provided. -
Sexual violence as a violation of sexual and reproductive health rights : a case study of South African and Nigerian law on sexual violence against women.
(2016)The right to sexual and reproductive health is a right which finds footing in other rights including that of the right to life and survival, which is necessary for the fulfilment of other human rights such as the right ... -
Examining the role of intellectual property law, policy and management in open innovation models that facilitiate innovation in and access to genomic medicine.
(2017)The traditional closed innovation model is largely supported by a regime where intellectual property rights (IPRs) are used to secure monopolies over inventions, with one justification being that this maximises profits ... -
Physician-assisted suicide in South Africa : a constitutional perspective.
(2016)Physician-assisted suicide is a form of active euthanasia where a physician, in response to a request from a terminally ill patient, assists such patient to commit suicide or provides the patient with means of committing ... -
A critical evaluation of nurse’s legal knowledge and its impact in preventing nursing malpractice in South Africa.
(2017)Abstract not available. -
The doctrine of therapeutic privilege and its place in South Africa.
(2014)Therapeutic privilege is an exception to informed consent and used as a defence when the doctor decides to withhold relevant medical information from the patient, because they are of the opinion that such disclosure could ...