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Law and Medicine: Current Legal Issues Volume 3

Michael Freeman and Andrew Lewis

Abstract

This book, the third volume in the Current Legal Issues series, provides a treatment of an area that will stimulate and enlighten anyone interested in law and medicine. This book considers the many areas where medicine intersects with the law. Advances in medical research, reproductive science, and genetic research give rise to ethical and legal issues that are well known. These are reflected in chapters on cloning, organ donation, choosing genetic characteristics, and the use of Viagra. At the same time changes in health care funding call into question the rights of patients, whilst a rise in ... More

Keywords: law, medicine, medical research, reproductive science, genetic research, ethical issues, cloning, organ donation, Viagra, health care funding

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2000 Print ISBN-13: 9780198299189
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198299189.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Michael Freeman, editor
University College London

Andrew Lewis, editor
University College London

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Editors’ Preface

Notes on Contributors

Table of Cases

Table of Statutes, Conventions, ETC

Introduction

The Provision of Health Care

The NHS in Private Hands? Regulating Private Providers of NHS Services

Christopher Newdick

Health Care Information Technology and Provider Accountability: A Symbiotic Relationship

Frances H. Miller

The Manipulation of Medical Practice

Vivienne Harpwood

Clinical Guidelines, Negligence and Medical Practice

Harvey Teff

Threatening Behaviour? The Challenge Posed by Medical Negligence Claims

Linda Mulcahy

Questions of Autonomy

Information, Decisions, and the Limits of Informed Consent

Carl E. Schneider, and Michael H. Farrell

Patient Autonomy—A Turn in the Tide?

Rebecca Bailey-Harris

Legal Limits: When does Autonomy in Health Care Prevail?

Anne Flamme, and Heidi Forster

Genetics and Cloning

Law, Society, and the New Genetics

Robert Dingwall

The Ethics of Human Cloning

Bonnie Steinbock

Written in Code: Diversity and the New Genetics

Belinda Bennett

Gene Therapy—Cure or Challenge?

Sheila A. M. McLean

Medicine and the Child

Protecting the Unborn Child from its Drug or Alcohol Abusing Mother

Kenneth McK. Norrie

Status of the Embryo in the Light of Islamic Jurisprudence

Abul Fadl Mohsin Ebrahim

Can We Leave the Best Interests of Very Sick Children to their Parents?

Michael Freeman

Reproductive Technology and the Law

The Caesarean Section Cases and the Supremacy of Autonomy

Jonathan Herring

Policing Pregnancy: Rights and Wrongs

Meredith Blake

The Gifts of Life-Donating Gametes and the Consequences

Louis Waller, and Debbie Mortimer

Consent and Intent: The Legal Differences in Assisted Reproductive Treatments

F. Shenfield

Symbolic Harm and Reproductive Practices

Elisabeth Boetzkes

Viagra is Coming! the Rhetoric of Choice and Need

Hazel Biggs, and Robin Mackenzie

The Politics of Paternity: Foetal Risks and Reproductive Harm

Cynthia Daniels, and Janet Golden

Issues of Research

Research on Human Subjects, Exploitation, and Global Principles of Ethics

John Harris

Government Priorities for Biomedical Research: What Does Justice Require?

Rebecca Dresser

Health Research with Children: the New Zealand Experience

Nicola Peart

Privacy and Confidentiality

Medical Data, New Information Technologies, and the Need for Normative Principles Other than Privacy Rules

Anton Vedder

Pre-Employment Health Screening

Diana Kloss

Life and Death Issues

Human Organ Transplant Ordinance: Facilitating Adult Live Donor Transplants?

Athena Liu

Thrift-Euthanasia, in Theory and in Practice: A Critique of Non-Heart-Beating Organ Harvesting

Howard M. Ducharme

The Comatose Pregnant Woman: Abortion and the Substituted-Judgement Approach

Erwin Bernat

Mental Health and the Law

The Mental Health Act: Taking Stock of the Current Position and Thinking about the Future

Peter Bartlett

Mind and Body: Medicine and Law

B. Mahendra

End Matter

Index