This book explores the key and fundamental legal principles underpinning medical and health care law in South Africa. It provides a thorough, authoritative, and integrated examination of the Constitution's role and its extensive influence on medical law and health services in the country. Topics covered include the South African health care system; regulation of the medical profession; the legal foundations of the doctor-patient relationship in both public and private sectors through contract law; the delicta aspects of the doctor-patient relationship within health care delivery; professional medical negligence and vicarious liability; justifications for medical interventions and general defenses; as well as patient privacy and medical confidentiality.

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