Full Description
This collection brings together essays from leading figures in the field of medical law and ethics which address the key issues currently challenging scholars in the field. It has also been compiled as a lasting testimony to the work of one of the most eminent scholars in the area, Professor Ken Mason. The collection marks the academic crowning of a career which has laid one of the foundation stones of an entire discipline. The wide-ranging contents and the standing of the contributors mean that the volume will be an invaluable resource for anyone studying or working in medical law or medical ethics.
Contents
1: The Legitimacy of Medical Law; 2: Cases and Casuistry; 3: Medical Ethics: Hippocratic and Democratic Ideals; 4: Contemporary Challenges in the Regulation of Health Practitioners; 5: The International Health Regulations: A New Paradigm for Global Health Governance?; 6: International Medical Research Regulation: From Ethics to Law 1; 7: Ethical and Policy Issues Related to Medical Error and Patient Safety; 8: Autonomy and Its Limits: What Place for the Public Good? 1; 9: The Autonomy of Others: Reflections on the Rise and Rise of Patient Choice in Contemporary Medical Law; 10: Conceptualising Privacy in Relation to Medical Research Values; 11: Human 'Guinea Pigs': Why Patients Participate in Clinical Trials; 12: Human(s) (as) Medicine(s) 1; 13: The Ethical Challenges of Biobanks: Safeguarding Altruism and Trust; 14: Law Reform, Clinical Research and Adults without Mental Capacity - Much Needed Clarification or a Recipe for Further Uncertainty?; 15: Continuing Conundrums in Competency; 16: Chester v. Afshar: Sayonara, Sub Silentio, Sidaway?; 17: 'Informed Consent' to Medical Treatment and the Impotence of Tort; 18: Mark Anthony or Macbeth: Some Problems Concerning the Dead and the Incompetent when it Comes to Consent; 19: No More 'Shock, Horror'? The Declining Significance of 'Sudden Shock' and the 'Horrifying Event' in Psychiatric Injury Claims; 20: Is There a Right Not to Procreate? 1; 21: Conscientious Objection: A Shield or a Sword?; 22: Classifying Abortion as a Health Matter: The Case for De-criminalising Abortion Laws in Australia; 23: What's Love Got to Do With It? Regulating Reproductive Technologies and Second Hand Emotions; 24: Saviour Siblings; 25: Wrongful Life, the Welfare Principle and the Non-Identity Problem: Some Further Complications; 26: Life-Prolonging Treatment and Patients' Legal Rights; 27: From Bland to Burke: The Law and Politics of Assisted Nutrition and Hydration; 28: Euthanasia as a Human Right; 29: The Futility of Opposing the Legalisation of Non-voluntary and Voluntary Euthanasia; 30: Defending the Council of Europe's Opposition to Euthanasia 1; 31: Newborn Screening for Sickle Cell Disease: Socio-Ethical Implications; 32: The 'Do No Harm' Principle and the Genetic Revolution in New Zealand; 33: Cloning, Zoning and the Harm Principle; 34: Exposing Harm: The Erasure of Animal Bodies in Healthcare Law; 35: Is the Gender Recognition Act 2004 as Important as It Seems? 1; 36: The Positive Side of Healthcare Rights; 37: In Defence of Doctors
