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Ethical and Legal Consequences of Posthumous Reproduction
Arrogance, Avarice and Anguish
Av Browne Lewis
Häftad, 2018
691 kr
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Posthumous reproduction refers to the procedure that enables a child to be conceived using the gametes of a dead person. Advances in reproductive technology mean it is now possible to assist in creating a life after you die, and in recent years the number of women who have attempted to get pregnant …
Islam and Biomedical Research Ethics
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book is a contribution to the nascent discourse on global health and biomedical research ethics involving Muslim populations and Islamic contexts. It presents a rich sociological account about the ways in which debates and questions involving Islam within the biomedical research context are …
Medical Treatment of Children and the Law
Beyond Parental Responsibilities
Av Jo Bridgeman
Inbunden, 2020
2315 kr
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The high profile cases of Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans, and Tafida Raqeeb raised the questions as to why the state intrudes into the exercise of parental responsibility concerning the medical treatment of children and why parents may not be permitted to decide what is in the best interests of their …
Restrictive Practices in Health Care and Disability Settings
Legal, Policy and Practical Responses
Av Bernadette McSherry, Yvette Maker
Inbunden, 2020
2315 kr
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This volume explores different models of regulating the use of restrictive practices in health care and disability settings. The authors examine the legislation, policies, inspection, enforcement and accreditation of the use of practices such as physical, mechanical and chemical restraint. They …
Restrictive Practices in Health Care and Disability Settings
Legal, Policy and Practical Responses
Av Bernadette McSherry, Yvette Maker
Häftad, 2022
637 kr
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This volume explores different models of regulating the use of restrictive practices in health care and disability settings. The authors examine the legislation, policies, inspection, enforcement and accreditation of the use of practices such as physical, mechanical and chemical restraint. They …
Health Research Governance in Africa
Law, Ethics, and Regulation
Av Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
Häftad, 2020
637 kr
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The globalisation of research has resulted in the increased location of research involving humans in developing countries. Countries in Africa, along with China and India, have seen research grow significantly. With emerging infectious diseases, such as Ebola and Zika, emphasising the risk of …
Revisiting Landmark Cases in Medical Law
Häftad, 2020
637 kr
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Is it lawful for a doctor to give a patient life-shortening pain relief? Can treatment be lawfully provided to a child under 16 on the basis of her consent alone? Is it lawful to remove food and water provided by tube to a patient in a vegetative state? Is a woman’s refusal of a caesarean section …
Islam and Biomedical Research Ethics
Häftad, 2022
716 kr
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This book is a contribution to the nascent discourse on global health and biomedical research ethics involving Muslim populations and Islamic contexts. It presents a rich sociological account about the ways in which debates and questions involving Islam within the biomedical research context are …
Medical Treatment of Children and the Law
Beyond Parental Responsibilities
Av Jo Bridgeman
Häftad, 2022
637 kr
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The high profile cases of Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans, and Tafida Raqeeb raised the questions as to why the state intrudes into the exercise of parental responsibility concerning the medical treatment of children and why parents may not be permitted to decide what is in the best interests of their …
Religion, Medicine and the Law
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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Is the legal protection that is given to the expression of Abrahamic religious belief adequate or appropriate in the context of English medical law? This is the central question that is explored in this book, which develops a framework to support judges in the resolution of contentious cases that …
Healthcare Ethics, Law and Professionalism
Essays on the Works of Alastair V. Campbell
Av Voo Teck Chuan, Richard Huxtable m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
637 kr
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Healthcare Ethics, Law and Professionalism: Essays on the Works of Alastair V. Campbell features 15 original essays on bioethics, and healthcare ethics specifically. The volume is in honour of Professor Alastair V. Campbell, who was the founding editor of the internationally renowned Journal of …
Fetus as a Patient
A Contested Concept and its Normative Implications
Av Dagmar Schmitz, Angus Clarke m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
637 kr
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Due to new developments in prenatal testing and therapy the fetus is increasingly visible, examinable and treatable in prenatal care. Accordingly, physicians tend to perceive the fetus as a patient and understand themselves as having certain professional duties towards it. However, it is far from …
Umbilical Cord Blood Controversies in Medical Law
Av Karen Devine
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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Since the therapeutic value of umbilical cord blood (UCB) stem cells was first recognised in the late 1980s, there has been a proliferation of both public and private UCB banks worldwide. However, the ability to utilise such a potentially valuable resource has provoked a number of controversies. In …
Pioneering Healthcare Law
Essays in Honour of Margaret Brazier
Av Catherine Stanton, Sarah Devaney m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
637 kr
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This book celebrates Professor Margaret Brazier’s outstanding contribution to the field of healthcare law and bioethics. It examines key aspects developed in Professor Brazier’s agenda-setting body of work, with contributions being provided by leading experts in the field from the UK, Australia, …
Assisted Suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights
Inbunden, 2021
2315 kr
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Locating assisted suicide within the broader medical end-of-life context and drawing on the empirical data available from the increasing number of permissive jurisdictions, this book provides a novel examination of the human rights implications of the prohibition on assisted suicide in England and …
Assisted Suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights
Häftad, 2023
597 kr
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Locating assisted suicide within the broader medical end-of-life context and drawing on the empirical data available from the increasing number of permissive jurisdictions, this book provides a novel examination of the human rights implications of the prohibition on assisted suicide in England and …
Medical Use of Human Beings
Respect as a Basis for Critique of Discourse, Law and Practice
Häftad, 2021
695 kr
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Whilst activities like transplantation and medical research have typically been considered on a discrete basis, they are also actually part of a broader phenomenon of medical means being employed to make use of human beings. This book is the first ever systematic critique of such medical use of the …
Intention and Causation in Medical Non-Killing
The Impact of Criminal Law Concepts on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Häftad, 2006
825 kr
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Analyzing the concepts of intention and causation in euthanasia, this timely new book explores a broad selection of disciplines, including criminal and medical law, medical ethics, philosophy and social policy and suggests an alternative solution to the one currently used by the courts, based on …
Autonomy and Pregnancy
A Comparative Analysis of Compelled Obstetric Intervention
Av Sam Halliday
Häftad, 2016
798 kr
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Technology has come to dominate the modern experience of pregnancy and childbirth, but instead of empowering pregnant women, technology has been used to identify the foetus as a second patient characterised as a distinct entity with its own needs and interests. Often, foetal and the woman’s …
Values in Medicine
What are We Really Doing to Patients?
Av Donald Evans
Inbunden, 2007
2564 kr
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Written by a leading proponent of the philosophy and ethics of healthcare, this volume is filled with thought-provoking and frequently controversial ideas and arguments. Accessibly written, it provides readers with a timely contribution to the current literature on medical ethics, in which the …
Values in Medicine
What are We Really Doing to Patients?
Av Donald Evans
Häftad, 2007
821 kr
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Written by a leading proponent of the philosophy and ethics of healthcare, this volume is filled with thought-provoking and frequently controversial ideas and arguments. Accessibly written, it provides readers with a timely contribution to the current literature on medical ethics, in which the …
Medicine, Malpractice and Misapprehensions
Inbunden, 2007
872 kr
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Analyzing the level of claims for clinical negligence in the light of the most recent trends and discovering whether there is indeed a litigation crisis in healthcare, this book is a topical and compelling exploration of healthcare and doctor-patient relationships.The author: identifies and …
Medicine, Malpractice and Misapprehensions
Häftad, 2007
221 kr
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Analyzing the level of claims for clinical negligence in the light of the most recent trends and discovering whether there is indeed a litigation crisis in healthcare, this book is a topical and compelling exploration of healthcare and doctor-patient relationships.The author: identifies and …
Healthcare Research Ethics and Law
Regulation, Review and Responsibility
Av Hazel Biggs
Häftad, 2009
882 kr
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The book explores and explains the relationship between law and ethics in the context of medically related research in order to provide a practical guide to understanding for members of research ethics committees (RECs), professionals involved with medical research and those with an academic …
Autonomy, Consent and the Law
Inbunden, 2009
2759 kr
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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 underpin the law of consent, which is theoretically designed to protect the right of patients to make decisions based on their own values and for their …
Autonomy, Consent and the Law
Häftad, 2009
856 kr
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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 underpin the law of consent, which is theoretically designed to protect the right of patients to make decisions based on their own values and for their …
Law, Ethics and Compromise at the Limits of Life
To Treat or not to Treat?
Inbunden, 2012
2600 kr
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A conflict arises in the clinic over the care of a critically ill, incapacitated patient. The clinicians and the patient’s family confront a difficult choice: to treat or not to treat? Decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment feature frequently in the courts and in the world's …
Law, Ethics and Compromise at the Limits of Life
To Treat or not to Treat?
Häftad, 2012
776 kr
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A conflict arises in the clinic over the care of a critically ill, incapacitated patient. The clinicians and the patient’s family confront a difficult choice: to treat or not to treat? Decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment feature frequently in the courts and in the world's …
Genomic Negligence
An Interest in Autonomy as the Basis for Novel Negligence Claims Generated by Genetic Technology
Inbunden, 2011
2315 kr
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Advances in genetic technology will lead to novel legal challenges. This book identifies four potential genomic claims which may be articulated as novel negligence challenges. Each of these claims is considered from the perspective of the English courts’ approach to novel kinds of damage. It is …
Health Professionals and Trust
The Cure for Healthcare Law and Policy
Inbunden, 2011
2600 kr
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An ever increasing number of codes of conduct, disciplinary bodies, ethics committees and bureaucratic policies now prescribe how health professionals and health researchers relate to their patients. In this book, Mark Henaghan argues that the result of this trend towards heightened regulation has …
