Böcker i Biomedical Law and Ethics Library-serien

Explores the law relating to euthanasia and assisted suicide, tracing its development from prohibition through to the laissez faire attitude adopted in a number of countries in 21st Century. This book provides a critique of the arguments surrounding legislative control of such practices and particularly looks into the regulatory role of the state.

Explores legislation intended to protect the interests of people with disabilities or impairments. Considering a range of ethical and legal concerns which arise in issues of life, death and disability, this book covers the social and legal responses to the equality rights of disabled people.

Suitable for members of research ethics committees (RECs), professionals involved with medical research and those with an academic interest in the subject, this book explains the relationship between law and ethics in the context of medically related research.

Comprehensively covering both the English and Scottish position within the context of the European Convention of human Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, this book examines a range of healthcare situations, from the commonly occurring to the unusual, offering an analysis of legislation, case law, cases and their implications.

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 book develops a framework to support judges in the resolution of contentious cases that involve dissension between religious belief and medical law.

The adoption of many treatments and procedures within medicine is far from straightforward, particularly when such treatments are ethically contentious. Bringing together a range of internationally recognised academics from law, philosophy, medicine, health economics, and sociology, the book explores the notion of a treatment, practice, or procedure being proper medical treatment, and considers the diverse factors which might influence the acceptance of a particular procedure as appropriate in the medical context. The book thus explores how the law, the medical profession and the public interact in determining whether a new or contentious procedure should be regarded as legitimate.

This volume explores the normative implications of the concept of the fetal patient against the background of the recent seminal developments in prenatal or fetal medicine from an interdisciplinary and international perspective.

As medical applications and scientific knowledge rapidly evolves, it is a challenge for statutory law to keep up and adapt. Law-making bodies are faced with the dilemma of whether to regulate new medical procedures. This book explores nature and function of Parliamentary regulation in the biomedical field, particularly focusing on the role of scientific expertise in both law-making and law-enforcing processes. Taking assisted reproductive technologies (ART) as a key case, and drawing on the legal systems of the UK, France, Italy and Spain, the book adopts a comparative method to understand the nature of medical regulation in both civil and common law systems.

This book considers the nature, strengths, weaknesses and possibilities for regulation in the biomedical research field with an emphasis on the extent to which "values" play a role in regulation.

This book is complied to celebrate Professor Margaret Brazier's outstanding contribution to the field of healthcare law and bioethics, with contributions being provided by leading experts in the field from the UK, Australia, the U.S. and continental Europe.

The book explores the notion of a treatment, practice, or procedure being proper medical treatment, and considers the diverse factors which might influence the acceptance of a particular procedure as appropriate in the medical context.

This book reflects on the many contributions made in and to European bioethics to date, in various locations, and from various disciplinary perspectives. In so doing, the book advances understanding of the academic and social status of European bioethics.

This edited volume explores the concept of `coercive care¿ in relation to individuals such as those with severe mental illnesses, those with intellectual and cognitive disabilities and those with substance use problems. With a focus on choice and capacity the book explores the impact of and challenges posed by the provision of care in an involuntary environment. The book covers new ground by exploring issues arising from the coercion of persons with various disabilities and vulnerabilities, helping to illustrate how the capacity to provide consent to treatment and care is impaired by reason of their condition.

Ideal for students, academics and practitioners, this text analyzes issues associated with assisted reproduction and embryology. Interdisciplinary in approach, it evaluates areas where there is debate and further/renewed regulation is needed.

Talks about issues associated with assisted reproduction and embryology, and critically analyzes the law surrounding human reproduction in the light of case law and technological developments since the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act was passed in 1990. This book tackles the relevant issues from an interdisciplinary perspective.