Books in the Biomedical Law and Ethics Library series

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 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.

Over the years, there has been a shift in medical law and practise to distrust the judgement of health professionals. This book looks comparatively at a number of countries, showing through analysis of case law, legislation and protocols produced by hospitals, how the shift from trust to lack of trust has happened.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Offering a theoretical engagement with actions for wrongful conception and birth, this book provides readers with a critique into the concepts of choice, responsibility and personhood. It challenges the law's response that enforced parenthood is a harmless outcome and examines the concept of autonomy, gender and women's reproductive freedom.

Addresses a number of key questions including: Should it be legal to sell human organs for transplantation? Are public displays of plastinated bodies or public autopsies morally justifiable? And, should there be restrictions on the uses of human tissue in teaching and research?

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.

Argues that the law governing the ending of life in England and Wales is unclear, confused and contradictory. This book shows that the rules are in competition because the ethical principles underlying them are so diverse and conflicting. It covers topics including Diane Pretty litigation and Lord Joffe's Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Bill.

Analyzing the criminal concepts of intention and causation in euthanasia, this book explores a range of disciplines and offers an alternative legal framework based on grading different categories of killing into a formalized justificatory defence.