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.
Regulating Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis: A Comparative and Theoretical Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Sheila A.M. McLean, Sarah Elliston
March 17, 2014
The successful achievement of pregnancies following pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) was first reported in April 1990. The technology is often used for patients who are at substantial risk of conceiving a pregnancy affected by a known genetic disorder, however from this technology other ...
Bioethics: Methods, Theories, Domains
1st Edition
By Marcus Düwell
March 07, 2014
This book is a philosophically-oriented introduction to bioethics. It offers the reader an overview of key debates in bioethics relevant to various areas including; organ retrieval, stem cell research, justice in healthcare and issues in environmental ethics, including issues surrounding food and ...
Medical Ethics in China: A Transcultural Interpretation
1st Edition
By Jing-Bao Nie
November 07, 2013
Drawing on a wide range of primary historical and sociological sources and employing sharp philosophical analysis, this book investigates medical ethics from a Chinese-Western comparative perspective. In doing so, it offers a fascinating exploration of both cultural differences and commonalities ...
Genomic Negligence: An Interest in Autonomy as the Basis for Novel Negligence Claims Generated by Genetic Technology
1st Edition
By Victoria Chico
May 03, 2013
Advances in genetic technology will lead to novel legal challenges. This book identifies four potential genomic claims which may be articulated as novel negligence challenges. Each of these claims is considered from the perspective of the English courts’ approach to novel kinds of damage. It is ...
Law, Ethics and Compromise at the Limits of Life: To Treat or not to Treat?
1st Edition
By Richard Huxtable
August 27, 2012
A conflict arises in the clinic over the care of a critically ill, incapacitated patient. The clinicians and the patient’s family confront a difficult choice: to treat or not to treat? Decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment feature frequently in the courts and in the world's ...
Health Professionals and Trust: The Cure for Healthcare Law and Policy
1st Edition
By Mark Henaghan
November 22, 2011
An ever increasing number of codes of conduct, disciplinary bodies, ethics committees and bureaucratic policies now prescribe how health professionals and health researchers relate to their patients. In this book, Mark Henaghan argues that the result of this trend towards heightened regulation has ...
Healthcare Research Ethics and Law: Regulation, Review and Responsibility
1st Edition
By Hazel Biggs
November 19, 2009
The book explores and explains the relationship between law and ethics in the context of medically related research in order to provide a practical guide to understanding for members of research ethics committees (RECs), professionals involved with medical research and those with an academic ...
Autonomy, Consent and the Law
1st Edition
By Sheila A.M. McLean
September 21, 2009
Autonomy is often said to be the dominant ethical principle in modern bioethics, and it is also important in law. Respect for autonomy is said to underpin the law of consent, which is theoretically designed to protect the right of patients to make decisions based on their own values and for their ...
The Body in Bioethics
1st Edition
By Alastair Campbell
May 08, 2009
Recent debates about uses and abuses of the human body in medicine have highlighted the need for a thorough discussion of the ethics of the uses of bodies, both living and dead. Thorough and comprehensive, this volume explores different views of the significance of the human body and contrasting ...
Medicine, Malpractice and Misapprehensions
1st Edition
By V.H. Harpwood
January 25, 2008
Analyzing the level of claims for clinical negligence in the light of the most recent trends and discovering whether there is indeed a litigation crisis in healthcare, this book is a topical and compelling exploration of healthcare and doctor-patient relationships. The author: identifies and ...
Values in Medicine: What are We Really Doing to Patients?
1st Edition
By Donald Evans
December 25, 2007
Written by a leading proponent of the philosophy and ethics of healthcare, this volume is filled with thought-provoking and frequently controversial ideas and arguments. Accessibly written, it provides readers with a timely contribution to the current literature on medical ethics, in which the ...
The Best Interests of the Child in Healthcare
1st Edition
By Sarah Elliston
December 19, 2007
Topical and compelling, this volume provides an excellent re-evaluation of the ‘best interests’ test in the healthcare arena; the ways in which it has developed, the inherent difficulties in its use and its interpretation in legal cases concerning the medical care of children. Comprehensively ...