Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
About the Book Series
Scientific and clinical advances, social and political developments and the impact of healthcare on our lives raise profound ethical and legal questions. Medical law and ethics have become central to our understanding of these problems, and are important tools for the analysis and resolution of problems – real or imagined.
In this series, scholars at the forefront of biomedical law and ethics will contribute to the debates in this area, with accessible, thought-provoking, and sometimes controversial ideas. Each book in the series will develop an independent hypothesis and argue cogently for a particular position. One of the major contributions of this series is the extent to which both law and ethics are utilised in the content of the books, and the shape of the series itself.
Exploitation, Ethics and Law: Violating the Ethos of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
1st Edition
By Suzanne Ost, Hazel Biggs
May 31, 2023
Focusing on a matter of continuing contemporary significance, this book is the first work to offer an in-depth exploration of exploitation in the doctor-patient relationship. It provides a theoretical analysis of the concept of exploitation, setting out exploitation’s essential elements within the ...
Assisted Suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights
1st Edition
By Stevie Martin
January 09, 2023
Locating assisted suicide within the broader medical end-of-life context and drawing on the empirical data available from the increasing number of permissive jurisdictions, this book provides a novel examination of the human rights implications of the prohibition on assisted suicide in England and ...
Restrictive Practices in Health Care and Disability Settings: Legal, Policy and Practical Responses
1st Edition
Edited
By Bernadette McSherry, Yvette Maker
August 01, 2022
This volume explores different models of regulating the use of restrictive practices in health care and disability settings. The authors examine the legislation, policies, inspection, enforcement and accreditation of the use of practices such as physical, mechanical and chemical restraint. They ...
Medical Treatment of Children and the Law: Beyond Parental Responsibilities
1st Edition
By Jo Bridgeman
May 30, 2022
The high profile cases of Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans, and Tafida Raqeeb raised the questions as to why the state intrudes into the exercise of parental responsibility concerning the medical treatment of children and why parents may not be permitted to decide what is in the best interests of their ...
Islam and Biomedical Research Ethics
1st Edition
By Mehrunisha Suleman
May 06, 2022
This book is a contribution to the nascent discourse on global health and biomedical research ethics involving Muslim populations and Islamic contexts. It presents a rich sociological account about the ways in which debates and questions involving Islam within the biomedical research context are ...
Medical Use of Human Beings: Respect as a Basis for Critique of Discourse, Law and Practice
1st Edition
By Austen Garwood-Gowers
March 31, 2021
Whilst activities like transplantation and medical research have typically been considered on a discrete basis, they are also actually part of a broader phenomenon of medical means being employed to make use of human beings. This book is the first ever systematic critique of such medical ...
The Fetus as a Patient: A Contested Concept and its Normative Implications
1st Edition
Edited
By Dagmar Schmitz, Angus Clarke, Wybo Dondorp
August 14, 2020
Due to new developments in prenatal testing and therapy the fetus is increasingly visible, examinable and treatable in prenatal care. Accordingly, physicians tend to perceive the fetus as a patient and understand themselves as having certain professional duties towards it. However, it is far from ...
Healthcare Ethics, Law and Professionalism: Essays on the Works of Alastair V. Campbell
1st Edition
Edited
By Voo Teck Chuan, Richard Huxtable, Nicola Peart
June 30, 2020
Healthcare Ethics, Law and Professionalism: Essays on the Works of Alastair V. Campbell features 15 original essays on bioethics, and healthcare ethics specifically. The volume is in honour of Professor Alastair V. Campbell, who was the founding editor of the internationally renowned Journal of ...
Pioneering Healthcare Law: Essays in Honour of Margaret Brazier
1st Edition
Edited
By Catherine Stanton, Sarah Devaney, Anne-Maree Farrell, Alexandra Mullock
June 30, 2020
This book celebrates Professor Margaret Brazier’s outstanding contribution to the field of healthcare law and bioethics. It examines key aspects developed in Professor Brazier’s agenda-setting body of work, with contributions being provided by leading experts in the field from the UK, Australia, ...
Religion, Medicine and the Law
1st Edition
By Clayton Ó Néill
June 30, 2020
Is the legal protection that is given to the expression of Abrahamic religious belief adequate or appropriate in the context of English medical law? This is the central question that is explored in this book, which develops a framework to support judges in the resolution of contentious cases that ...
The Umbilical Cord Blood Controversies in Medical Law
1st Edition
By Karen Devine
June 30, 2020
Since the therapeutic value of umbilical cord blood (UCB) stem cells was first recognised in the late 1980s, there has been a proliferation of both public and private UCB banks worldwide. However, the ability to utilise such a potentially valuable resource has provoked a number of controversies. In...
Revisiting Landmark Cases in Medical Law
1st Edition
By Shaun D. Pattinson
February 25, 2020
Is it lawful for a doctor to give a patient life-shortening pain relief? Can treatment be lawfully provided to a child under 16 on the basis of her consent alone? Is it lawful to remove food and water provided by tube to a patient in a vegetative state? Is a woman’s refusal of a caesarean section ...