Books in the Medical Law and Ethics series

Focuses on practical and conceptual perspectives that set standards for a detailed and innovative discussion in the regulation of research on human tissue. This book identifies divergences between the different legal traditions, and explores various conceptual models which could be used to improve and to guide policy making.

Draws on the French experience to examine the international debate surrounding organ procurement. In this book, commentators have tried to explain the dramatic differences in procurement rates in different countries in terms of legal variables, highlighting the variety of legal systems regulating consent.

Self-regulation constitutes an important aspect of the regulatory and oversight process governing professionals. This book focuses on medical self-regulation in the context of both the wider regulatory framework and that of other regulatory models. It is of interest to policy makers, as well as students and practitioners in the fields of medicine.

How can medical law and ethics take forward the issue of children's empowerment and protection? What are the key factors in considering the balance between protecting the welfare of the young and allowing them rights to autonomy? This book investigates the role that a human rights approach can play in establishing the parameters of autonomy.

Compares the area of biobanking with the tradition of ethically accepted classical research. This book highlights the features of databases and guidelines, identifies areas of consensus and controversy, investigates why genetic databases are a challenge to classical health research ethics, and analyzes why various guidelines differ.

Sets an agenda for discussing ethics surrounding the disclosure of genetic information. This book considers the ethics of disclosure in a variety of contexts in which genetic information is generated, requested, interpreted or communicated - from the provider perspective, and also from the moral perspectives of clients and their families.