Medical Law

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Welcome to the new Medical Law 2012 catalog, showcasing new and key backlist titles in the field of Medical Law, from Routledge.

We have a large section on the key series Biomedical Law & Ethics Library, as well as textbook and Revision Materials and titles in the area of Medical Ethics and Healthcare Law.

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Highlights

  1. Text, Cases and Materials on Medical Law and Ethics

    4th Edition

    By Marc Stauch, Kay Wheat

    Text, Cases & Materials on Medical Law and Ethics presents a valuable collection of materials relating to this topical and increasingly controversial area of the law. Comprising extracts from statutes, cases and scholarly articles alongside expert author commentary and guidance, Medical Law and...

    Published July 11th 2011 by Routledge

  2. Law, Ethics and Compromise at the Limits of Life

    To Treat or not to Treat?

    By Richard Huxtable

    Series: Biomedical Law and Ethics Library

    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...

    Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Genomic Negligence

    An Interest in Autonomy as the Basis for Novel Negligence Claims Generated by Genetic Technology

    By Victoria Chico

    Series: Biomedical Law and Ethics Library

    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...

    Published April 20th 2011 by Routledge

  4. Serial Killers

    Psychiatry, Criminology, Responsibility

    By Francesca Biagi-Chai

    Francesca Biagi-Chai’s book - a translation from the French of Le Cas Landru - tackles the issue of criminal responsibility in the case of serial killers, and other 'mad' people who are nonetheless deemed to be answerable before the law. The author, a Lacanian psychoanalyst and senior psychiatrist...

    Published September 28th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish