Pioneering Healthcare Law.

• Superior document: Biomedical law and ethics library
• VerfasserIn: Farrell, Anne-Maree.; Devaney, Sarah.; Stanton, Catherine.; Mullock, Alexandra.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Biomedical law and ethics library.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

This book celebrates Professor Margaret Brazier?s outstanding contribution to the field of healthcare law and bioethics. It examines key aspects developed in Professor Brazier?s agenda-setting body of work, with contributions being provided by leading experts in the field from the UK, Australia, the US and continental Europe. They examine a range of current and future challenges for healthcare law and bioethics, representing state-of-the-art scholarship in the field.

Table of Contents

Preface / Brenda Hale -- Pioneering healthcare law : reflecting on the work and contribution of Margaret Brazier / Catherine Stanton, Sarah Devaney, Anne-Maree Farrell and Alexandra Mullock -- Waxing and waning : the shifting sands of autonomy on the medico-legal shore / J. Kenyon Mason & Graeme Laurie -- Compulsory vaccination and the collective good : going beyond a civic duty? / Nicola Glover-Thomas & Søren Holm -- The value of human life in healthcare law : life versus death in the hands of the judiciary / Rob Heywood & Alexandra Mullock -- Decisions at the end of life : an attempt at rationalisation / Sheila McLean -- The past, present and future of eu health law / Tamara Hervey -- Beyond medicine, patients and the law : policy and governance in 21st century health law / John Coggon & Lawrence O Gostin -- "(I love you!) I do, I do, I do, I do, I do" : breaches of sexual boundaries by patients in their relationships with healthcare professionals / Suzanne Ost & Hazel Biggs -- When things go wrong : patient harm, responsibility and (dis)empowerment / Anne-Maree Farrell and Sarah Devaney -- Critical decisions for critically ill infants : principles, processes, problems / Giles Birchley and Richard Huxtable -- The role of the family in healthcare decisions : the dead and the dying / Monica Navarro-Michel -- Exploring the legacy of the retained organs commission a decade on : lessons learned and the danger of lessons lost / Jean McHale -- Property interests in human tissue : is the law still an ass? / Muireann Quigley and Loane Skene -- Law and humanity : exploring organ donation using the Brazier method / Marleen Eijkholt and Ruth Stirton -- Sex change surgery for transgender minors : should doctors speak out? / Simona Giordano, César Palacios-González and John Harris -- The lawyer's prestige / Iain Brassington and Imogen Jones -- The science of muddling through : categorising embryos / Marie Fox and Sheelagh McGuinness -- Revisiting the regulation of the reproduction business / Danielle Griffiths and Amel Alghrani -- Regulating responsible reproduction / David Archard -- Donor conception and information disclosure : welfare or consent? / Rosamund Scott -- Are we still "policing pregnancy"? / Sara Fovargue and Jose Miola -- Vulnerability and the criminal law : the implications of Brazier's research for safeguarding people at risk / Kirsty Keywood and Zuzanna Sawicka -- Revisiting the criminal law on the transmission of disease / David Gurnham and Andrew Ashworth -- Maternal responsibility to the child not yet born / Emma Cave and Catherine Stanton -- Compromise medicalisation / Roger Brownsword and Jeffrey Wale.