Assisted Suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights

Stevie Martin

• Paperback | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• Locating assisted suicide within the broader medical end-of-life context and drawing on the empirical data available from the increasing number of per... Lees meer

The Fetus as a Patient

• Hardcover | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• Due to new developments in prenatal testing and therapy the fetus is increasingly visible, examinable and treatable in prenatal care. Accordingly, phy... Lees meer

Autonomy, Consent and the Law

Sheila A M McLean

• Hardcover | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• Autonomy is often said to be the dominant ethical principle in modern bioethics, and it is also important in law. Respect for autonomy is said to unde... Lees meer

Human Population Genetic Research in Developing Countries

Yue Wang

• Hardcover | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• Human population genetic research seeks to identify how human group and individual genetic diversity has developed. Since this research targets specif... Lees meer

Healthcare Research Ethics and Law

Hazel Biggs

• Hardcover | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• The book explores and explains the relationship between law and ethics in the context of medically related research in order to provide a practical gu... Lees meer

Bioethics and the Humanities

Robin Downie, Jane Macnaughton

• Hardcover | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• Critiquing many areas of medical practice and research whilst making constructive suggestions about medical education, this book extends the scope of ... Lees meer

Genomic Negligence

Victoria Chico

• Hardcover | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• Advances in genetic technology will lead to novel legal challenges. This book identifies four potential genomic claims which may be articulated as nov... Lees meer

Values in Medicine

Donald Evans

• Paperback | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• Written by a leading proponent of the philosophy and ethics of healthcare, this volume is filled with thought-provoking and frequently controversial i... Lees meer

Coercive Care

• Hardcover | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• There has been much debate about mental health law reform and mental capacity legislation in recent years with the UN Convention on the Rights of Pers... Lees meer

Autonomy and Pregnancy

Sam Halliday

• Hardcover | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• Technology has come to dominate the modern experience of pregnancy and childbirth, but instead of empowering pregnant women, technology has been used ... Lees meer

The Legitimacy of Medical Treatment

• Paperback | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• The adoption of many treatments and procedures within medicine is far from straightforward, particularly when such treatments are ethically contentiou... Lees meer

Islam and Biomedical Research Ethics

Mehrunisha Suleman

• Paperback | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• This book is a contribution to the nascent discourse on global health and biomedical research ethics involving Muslim populations and Islamic contexts... Lees meer

Human Fertilisation and Embryology

• Hardcover | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• Relevant to students, academics and practitioners across the globe, this original volume highlights contemporary issues associated with assisted repro... Lees meer

Revisiting the Regulation of Human Fertilisation and Embryology

Kirsty Horsey

• Paperback | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 was a major update to the UK's laws on the use and regulation of reproductive technology and assisted ... Lees meer

Critically Impaired Infants and End of Life Decision Making

Neera Bhatia

• Paperback | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• Decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment are contentious, and offer difficult moral dilemmas to both medical practitioners and the ... Lees meer

Restrictive Practices in Health Care and Disability Settings

• Hardcover | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• This volume explores different models of regulating the use of restrictive practices in health care and disability settings. The authors examine the l... Lees meer

Law, Ethics and Compromise at the Limits of Life

Richard Huxtable

• Paperback | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• This book will focus upon decisions to withhold or withdraw life-supporting treatment from incompetent patients. The book offers a critical examinatio... Lees meer

Medical Use of Human Beings

Austen Garwood-Gowers

• Paperback | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• Whilst activities like transplantation and medical research have typically been considered on a discrete basis, they are also actually part of a broad... Lees meer

Pioneering Healthcare Law

• Paperback | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• This book celebrates Professor Margaret Brazier's outstanding contribution to the field of healthcare law and bioethics. It examines key aspects devel... Lees meer

Assisted Dying

Sheila McLean

• Paperback | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• Assisted Dying explores the law relating to euthanasia and assisted suicide, tracing its development from prohibition through to the laissez faire att... Lees meer

Restrictive Practices in Health Care and Disability Settings

• Paperback | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• This volume explores different models of regulating the use of restrictive practices in health care and disability settings. The authors examine the l... Lees meer

The Legitimacy of Medical Treatment

• Hardcover | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• Whenever the legitimacy of a new or ethically contentious medical intervention is considered, a range of influences will determine whether the treatme... Lees meer

Donor Conception and the Search for Information

Sonia Allan

• Paperback | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• This book examines donor conception and the search for information by donor-conceived people. It details differing regulatory approaches across the gl... Lees meer

Impairment and Disability

Sheila McLean, Laura Williamson

• Hardcover | Engels | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• This book explores legislation intended to protect the interests of people with disabilities or impairments. Considering a broad range of ethical and ... Lees meer