Medical Law

Emily Jackson first joined the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1998. After graduating from Oxford University, she worked as a research officer at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in Oxford. Her first teaching position was at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and she has also taught at Birkbeck College and Queen Mary, University of London. Between 2003 and 2012, Emily was a member and then Deputy Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. She was a Judicial Appointments Commissioner from 2013-2017. She has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2016, and in 2017 was awarded an OBE for services to higher education.

Review from previous edition This is the best text, cases and materials book on medical law around. It explains the law and ethical literature in an accessible manner while still being thorough. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

• 1: An introduction to bioethics 2: The provision of health care services: the NHS, resource allocation, and public health 3: Medical malpractice 4: Informed consent 5: Incapacity I: Adults 6: Incapacity II: Children 7: Mental health law 8: Confidentiality 9: Genetic information 10: Clinical research 11: The regulation of medicines 12: Organ transplantation 13: Embryo research, stem cells, and emerging biotechnologies 14: Abortion 15: Assisted conception 16: Surrogacy 17: Assisted dying