First Do No Harm
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First Do No Harm

Law, Ethics and Healthcare

  1. 624 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

First Do No Harm

Law, Ethics and Healthcare

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781138277502
eBook ISBN
9781317134978
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Law Theory & Practice
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Preface
  8. Ken Mason ā€“ An Appreciation
  9. 1. The Legitimacy of Medical Law
  10. 2. Cases and Casuistry
  11. 3. Medical Ethics: Hippocratic and Democratic Ideals
  12. 4. Contemporary Challenges in the Regulation of Health Practitioners
  13. 5. The International Health Regulations: A New Paradigm for Global Health Governance?
  14. 6. International Medical Research Regulation: From Ethics to Law
  15. 7. Ethical and Policy Issues Related to Medical Error and Patient Safety
  16. 8. Autonomy and Its Limits: What Place for the Public Good?
  17. 9. The Autonomy of Others: Reflections on the Rise and Rise of Patient Choice in Contemporary Medical Law
  18. 10. Conceptualising Privacy in Relation to Medical Research Values
  19. 11. Human ā€˜Guinea Pigsā€™: Why Patients Participate in Clinical Trials
  20. 12. Human(s) (as) Medicine(s)
  21. 13. The Ethical Challenges of Biobanks: Safeguarding Altruism and Trust
  22. 14. Law Reform, Clinical Research and Adults without Mental Capacity ā€“ Much Needed Clarification or a Recipe for Further Uncertainty?
  23. 15. Continuing Conundrums in Competency
  24. 16. Chester v. Afshar: Sayonara, Sub Silentio, Sidaway?
  25. 17. ā€˜Informed Consentā€™ to Medical Treatment and the Impotence of Tort
  26. 18. Mark Anthony or Macbeth: Some Problems Concerning the Dead and the Incompetent when it Comes to Consent
  27. 19. No More ā€˜Shock, Horrorā€™? The Declining Significance of ā€˜Sudden Shockā€™ and the ā€˜Horrifying Eventā€™ in Psychiatric Injury Claims
  28. 20. Is There a Right Not to Procreate?
  29. 21. Conscientious Objection: A Shield or a Sword?
  30. 22. Classifying Abortion as a Health Matter: The Case for De-criminalising Abortion Laws in Australia
  31. 23. Whatā€™s Love Got to Do With It? Regulating Reproductive Technologies and Second Hand Emotions
  32. 24. Saviour Siblings
  33. 25. Wrongful Life, the Welfare Principle and the Non-Identity Problem: Some Further Complications
  34. 26. Life-Prolonging Treatment and Patientsā€™ Legal Rights
  35. 27. From Bland to Burke: The Law and Politics of Assisted Nutrition and Hydration
  36. 28. Euthanasia as a Human Right
  37. 29. The Futility of Opposing the Legalisation of Non-Voluntary and Voluntary Euthanasia
  38. 30. Defending the Council of Europeā€™s Opposition to Euthanasia
  39. 31. Newborn Screening for Sickle Cell Disease: Socio-Ethical Implications
  40. 32. The ā€˜Do No Harmā€™ Principle and the Genetic Revolution in New Zealand
  41. 33. Cloning, Zoning and the Harm Principle
  42. 34. Exposing Harm: The Erasure of Animal Bodies in Healthcare Law
  43. 35. Is the Gender Recognition Act 2004 as Important as It Seems?
  44. 36. The Positive Side of Healthcare Rights
  45. 37. In Defence of Doctors