Leading works in health law and ethics / edited by Sara Fovargue and Craig Purshouse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fovargue, Sara, 1971- editor.

Purshouse, Craig, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Analysing leading works in law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical laws and legislation.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Contents:

Introduction / Sara Fovargue and Craig Purshouse

Altruism, markets and the importance of the social contract in healthcare : Richard Titmuss's the gift relationship / Anne-Maree Farrell

Principled effects : the importance of Beauchamp and Childress' principles of biomedical ethics / Stephen Smith

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

'Master of medical law'? Peter Skegg's Law, ethics, and medicine and the denial of life-prolonging treatment / Richard Huxtable

The Warnock Report on Human Fertilisation and Embryology (1984) / Emma Cave

Identifying the disease but not the cure : Ian Kennedy's 'what is a medical decision?' / José Miola

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

How to control disease transmission : Brazier and Harris's 'public health and private lives' / Craig Purshouse

The importance of listening to patients : Sarah Franklin's embodied progress: a cultural account of assisted conception / Emily Jackson

Integrating feminisms' perspectives into the legal curriculum : feminist perspectives on health care law / Sara Fovargue

Emily Jackson, regulating reproduction : law, technology and autonomy / Jo Bridgeman

Disclosing genetic information within families and beyond : Graeme Laurie's genetic privacy: a challenge to medico-legal norms / Roy Gilbar

Setting a research agenda for mental capacity law : Mary Donnelly's healthcare decision-making and the law / Jaime Lindsey

Thinking carefully about organ donation : Janet Radcliffe-Richards's the ethics of transplants: why careless thought costs lives / Bonnie Venter

Cohering the normative and the empirical : Jonathan Ives's 'a method of reflexive balancing in a pragmatic, interdisciplinary and reflexive bioethics' / Louise Austin

Learning lessons about how to learn from mistakes : errors, medicine and the law / Sarah Devaney

Reflections on these leading works / Bernadette Richards.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781000909937 (electronic bk.)

100090993X (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

40031860703

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