Bioethics, medicine, and the criminal law. Volume 1, The criminal law and bioethical conflict : walking the tightrope / edited by Amel Alghrani, Rebecca Bennett, Suzanne Ost.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alghrani, Amel, editor.

Bennett, Rebecca, 1969- editor.

Ost, Suzanne, editor.

Series:

Cambridge bioethics and law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genetic engineering--Law and legislation--Criminal provisions.

Genetic engineering.

Medical genetics--Law and legislation--Criminal provisions.

Medical genetics.

Biotechnology--Law and legislation--Criminal provisions.

Biotechnology.

Bioethics.

Biotechnology--Law and legislation.

Medical genetics--Law and legislation.

Genetic engineering--Law and legislation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Bioethics, Medicine & the Criminal Law

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Who should define what constitutes ethical and lawful medical practice? Judges? Doctors? Scientists? Or someone else entirely? This volume analyses how effectively criminal law operates as a forum for resolving ethical conflict in the delivery of health care. It addresses key questions such as: how does criminal law regulate controversial bioethical areas? What effect, positive or negative, does the use of criminal law have when regulating bioethical conflict? And can the law accommodate moral controversy? By exploring criminal law in theory and in practice and examining the broad field of bioethics as opposed to the narrower terrain of medical ethics, it offers balanced arguments that will help readers form reasoned views on the ethical legitimacy of the invocation and use of criminal law to regulate medical and scientific practice and bioethical issues.

Notes:

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781139177382

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.