Law and Legacy in Medical Jurisprudence

Essays in Honour of Graeme Laurie

Edward S. Dove, Niamh Nic Shuibhne

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781108842433
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108906159
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Medical Law
• Index: Law

Graeme Laurie stepped down from the Chair in Medical Jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh in 2019. This edited collection pays tribute to his extraordinary contributions to the field. Graeme often spoke about the importance of 'legacy' in academic work and forged a remarkable intellectual legacy of his own, notably through his work on genetic privacy, human tissue and information governance, and the regulatory salience of the concept of liminality. The essays in this volume animate the concept of legacy to analyse the study and practice of medical jurisprudence. In this light, legacy reveals characteristics of both benefit and burden, as both an encumbrance to and facilitator of the development of law, policy and regulation. The contributions reconcile the ideas of legacy and responsiveness and show that both dimensions are critical to achieve and sustain the health of medical jurisprudence itself as a dynamic, interdisciplinary and policy-engaged field of thinking.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Table of Cases
• Table of Legislation
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 ‘Doing’ Medical Law and Ethics: Putting Interdisciplinarity to Work
• 2 A Philosopher Looks at ‘Law and Medical Ethics’
• 3 Thinking Outside the Box: Graeme Laurie’s Legacy to Medical Jurisprudence
• 4 The Public Interest in Health Research: From Concept to Context
• 5 Taking the Legacy Forward: Reflections on Graeme Laurie’s Approach to Liminality and Its Relevance for the Ethics and Governance of Reproductive Technologies
• 6 On the Importance of Impact on Policy and Legacy
• 7 Breathing Life into Law: What It Means to Take an Ethics+ Approach to Conceptualising Law in Research Governance
• 8 Biomedical Research Policy: Back to the Future?
• 9 The Burden of History: How Past Scandals Have Shaped the Future Governance of Human Tissue and Health Data
• 10 Body Parts and Baleful Stars?
• 11 The Legacy of the Warnock Report
• 12 ‘Only Time Will Tell’: Escape from the Medically Assisted Suicide Spiral
• 13 Integrating the Biological and the Technological: Time to Move Beyond Law’s Binaries?*
• 14 UK Biobank and the Legal Regulation of Genetic Research: Preserving the Legacy and Empowering Future Regulation
• 15 Overcoming Regulatory Impasse in Stem Cell Research and Advanced Therapy Medicines in Argentina through Shared Norms and Values
• 16 Institutions, Interpretive Communities and Legacy in Decision-Making: A Case Study of Patents, Morality and Biotechnological Inventions
• 17 Towards a New Privacy: Informed Consent as an Encumbrance to Group Interests
• 18 A Tale of Two Legacies: Drawing on Humanist Interpretations to Animate the Right to the Benefits of Science
• Afterword: The Great Coronavirus Pandemic: A Pivotal Moment for Health Law and Ethics
• Index