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Biomedical Law and Ethics Library


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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.

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Exploitation, Ethics and Law Violating the Ethos of the Doctor-Patient Relationship

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Revisiting Landmark Cases in Medical Law

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 ...

Medical Use of Human Beings Respect as a Basis for Critique of Discourse, Law and Practice

Medical Use of Human Beings: Respect as a Basis for Critique of Discourse, Law and Practice

1st Edition

By Austen Garwood-Gowers
July 23, 2019

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 ...

Religion, Medicine and the Law

Religion, Medicine and the Law

1st Edition

By Clayton Ó Néill
November 20, 2018

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 ...

Healthcare Ethics, Law and Professionalism Essays on the Works of Alastair V. Campbell

Healthcare Ethics, Law and Professionalism: Essays on the Works of Alastair V. Campbell

1st Edition

Edited By Voo Teck Chuan, Richard Huxtable, Nicola Peart
October 22, 2018

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 ...

The Ethical and Legal Consequences of Posthumous Reproduction Arrogance, Avarice and Anguish

The Ethical and Legal Consequences of Posthumous Reproduction: Arrogance, Avarice and Anguish

1st Edition

By Browne Lewis
October 18, 2018

Posthumous reproduction refers to the procedure that enables a child to be conceived using the gametes of a dead person. Advances in reproductive technology mean it is now possible to assist in creating a life after you die, and in recent years the number of women who have attempted to get pregnant...

Health Research Governance in Africa Law, Ethics, and Regulation

Health Research Governance in Africa: Law, Ethics, and Regulation

1st Edition

By Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
September 17, 2018

The globalisation of research has resulted in the increased location of research involving humans in developing countries. Countries in Africa, along with China and India, have seen research grow significantly. With emerging infectious diseases, such as Ebola and Zika, emphasising the risk of ...

Donor Conception and the Search for Information From Secrecy and Anonymity to Openness

Donor Conception and the Search for Information: From Secrecy and Anonymity to Openness

1st Edition

By Sonia Allan
August 14, 2018

This book examines donor conception and the search for information by donor-conceived people. It details differing regulatory approaches across the globe, including those that provide for ‘open-identity’ or anonymous donation, or that take a ‘dual-track’ approach. In doing so, it identifies models ...

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