Merry and McCall Smith's Errors, Medicine and the Law

Alan Merry, Warren Brookbanks

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law | nr. 38
• There is an understandable tendency or desire to attribute blame when patients are harmed by their own healthcare. However, many cases of iatrogenic h... Lees meer

Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice

Michael Parker

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law | nr. 19
• Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice provides a rich, case-based account of the ethical issues arising in the genetics clinic and laboratory. By ana... Lees meer

Empirical Bioethics

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law | nr. 37
• Bioethics has long been accepted as an interdisciplinary field. The recent 'empirical turn' in bioethics is, however, creating challenges that move be... Lees meer

Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice

Michael Parker

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law | nr. 19
• Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice provides a rich, case-based account of the ethical issues arising in the genetics clinic and laboratory. By ana... Lees meer

Self-Ownership, Property Rights, and the Human Body

Muireann Quigley

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law | nr. 43
• How ought the law to deal with novel challenges regarding the use and control of human biomaterials? As it stands the law is ill-equipped to deal with... Lees meer

Genetic Data and the Law

Mark Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law | nr. 16
• Research using genetic data raises various concerns relating to privacy protection. Many of these concerns can also apply to research that uses other ... Lees meer

Regulating Patient Safety

Oliver Quick

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law | nr. 35
• Systematically improving patient safety is of the utmost importance, but it is also an extremely complex and challenging task. This illuminating study... Lees meer

Beyond Autonomy

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law
• Respect for autonomy has become a fundamental principle in human research ethics. Nonetheless, this principle and the associated process of obtaining ... Lees meer

The Connected Self

Heather Widdows

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law
• Currently, the ethics infrastructure - from medical and scientific training to the scrutiny of ethics committees - focuses on trying to reform informe... Lees meer

The Right to Know and the Right Not to Know

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law
• The privacy concerns discussed in the 1990s in relation to the New Genetics failed to anticipate the relevant issues for individuals, families, geneti... Lees meer

Privacy, Confidentiality, and Health Research

William W Lowrance

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law | nr. 20
• The potential of the e-health revolution, increased data sharing, database linking, biobanks and new techniques such as geolocation and genomics to ad... Lees meer

Criminalising Contagion

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law
• The use of the criminal law to punish those who transmit disease is a topical and controversial issue. To date, the law, and the related academic lite... Lees meer

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law | nr. 42
• Examining the evidence from Belgium - one of only five countries where euthanasia is practised legally - an international panel of experts considers t... Lees meer

Continuous Sedation at the End of Life

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law
• Continuous sedation until death (sometimes referred to as terminal sedation or palliative sedation) is an increasingly common practice in end-of-life ... Lees meer

Beyond Autonomy

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law
• Respect for autonomy has become a fundamental principle in human research ethics. Nonetheless, this principle and the associated process of obtaining ... Lees meer

Consent for Medical Treatment of Trans Youth

Steph Jowett

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law
• Access to medical treatment for trans youth occupies a haphazard and dynamic legal landscape. In this comprehensive scholarly analysis of the historic... Lees meer

End-Of-Life Decisions in Medical Care

Stephen W Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law | nr. 18
• Those involved in end-of-life decision making must take into account both legal and ethical issues. This book starts with a critical reflection of eth... Lees meer

Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law
• Hippocrates famously advised doctors 'it is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has'. Yet 2,500 years ... Lees meer

Sharing Linked Data for Health Research

Carolyn Adams, Judy Allen, Felicity Flack

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law
• Health research around the world relies on access to data, and much of the most valuable, reliable, and comprehensive data collections are held by gov... Lees meer

Electronic Health Records and Medical Big Data

Sharona Hoffman

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law | nr. 32
• This book helps readers gain an in-depth understanding of electronic health record (EHR) systems, medical big data, and the regulations that govern th... Lees meer

The Global Health Crisis

Thana Cristina de Campos

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law | nr. 36
• Proposing a new view of global justice based on natural law, this book presents a discussion of the key ethical values in contemporary medicine and he... Lees meer

Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law
• Who should define what constitutes ethical and lawful medical practice? Judges? Doctors? Scientists? Or someone else entirely? This volume analyses ho... Lees meer

Mental Capacity, Dignity and the Power of International Human Rights

Julia Duffy

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law
• Personhood, in liberal philosophical and legal traditions, has long been grounded in the idea of autonomy and the right to legal capacity. However, in... Lees meer

Mental Capacity in Relationship

Camillia Kong

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Bioethics and Law | nr. 34
• Recent legal developments challenge how valid the concept of mental capacity is in determining whether individuals with impairments can make decisions... Lees meer