1st Edition

Leading Works in Health Law and Ethics

Edited By Sara Fovargue, Craig Purshouse Copyright 2024
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

Health and healthcare are vitally important to all of us, and academic interest in the law regulating health has, over the last 50 years, become an important field of academic study. An analysis of the development of, changes in, and scope of health law and ethics to date, is both timely and of interest to students and scholars alike, along with an exploration of its likely future development.... Read more

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

SARA FOVARGUE AND CRAIG PURSHOUSE

2 Altruism, markets, and the importance of the social contract in healthcare: Richard Titmuss’s The Gift Relationship

ANNE-MAREE FARRELL

3 Principled effects: The importance of Beauchamp and Childress’s Principles of Biomedical Ethics

STEPHEN W SMITH

4 The realisation of human rights in mental health law: Larry Gostin’s ‘The ideology of entitlement: The application of contemporary legal approaches to psychiatry’

JUDY LAING

5 ‘Master of medical law’? Peter Skegg’s Law, Ethics, and Medicine and the denial of life-prolonging treatment

RICHARD HUXTABLE

6 The Warnock Report on Human Fertilisation and Embryology (1984)

EMMA CAVE

7 Identifying the disease but not the cure: Ian Kennedy’s ‘What is a medical decision?’

JOSÉ MIOLA

8 Taking the long view: David Rothman’s Strangers at the Bedside: A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making

MARY DONNELLY AND BARRY LYONS

9 How to control disease transmission: Margaret Brazier and John Harris’s ‘Public health and private lives’

CRAIG PURSHOUSE

10 The importance of listening to patients: Sarah Franklin’s Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception

EMILY JACKSON

11 Integrating feminisms’ perspectives into the legal curriculum: Feminist Perspectives on Health Care Law

SARA FOVARGUE

12 Emily Jackson, Regulating Reproduction: Law, Technology, and Autonomy

JO BRIDGEMAN

13 Disclosing genetic information within families and beyond: Graeme Laurie’s Genetic Privacy:  A Challenge to Medico-Legal Norms

ROY GILBAR

14 Setting a research agenda for mental capacity law: Mary Donnelly’s Healthcare Decision-Making and the Law

JAIME LINDSEY

15 Thinking carefully about organ donation: Janet Radcliffe-Richards’s The Ethics of Transplants: Why Careless Thought Costs Lives

BONNIE VENTER

16 Cohering the normative and the empirical: Jonathan Ives’s ‘A method of reflexive balancing in a pragmatic, interdisciplinary and reflexive bioethics’

LOUISE AUSTIN

Contents ix

17 Learning lessons about how to learn from mistakes: Errors, Medicine and the Law

SARAH DEVANEY

18 Reflections on these leading works

BERNADETTE RICHARDS

Index

Biography

Sara Fovargue is Professor of Law in the School of Law at the University of Sheffield, England.

Craig Purshouse is a senior lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool, England.