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Regulating Patient Safety
The End of Professional Dominance?
Av Oliver Quick
Inbunden, 2017
973 kr
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Systematically improving patient safety is of the utmost importance, but it is also an extremely complex and challenging task. This illuminating study evaluates the role of professionalism, regulation and law in seeking to improve safety, arguing that the 'medical dominance' model is ill-suited to …
The Politics of Blood
Ethics, Innovation and the Regulation of Risk
Inbunden, 2012
967 kr
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How best to manage risk involving multi-valued human biological materials is the overarching theme of this book, which draws on the sourcing and supply of blood as a case study. Blood has ethical, social, scientific and commercial value. This multi-valuing process presents challenges in terms of …
Consent for Medical Treatment of Trans Youth
Av Steph Jowett
Häftad, 2024
463 kr
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Access to medical treatment for trans youth occupies a haphazard and dynamic legal landscape. In this comprehensive scholarly analysis of the historical and current legal principles, Steph Jowett examines the medico-legal nexus of regulation of this healthcare in Australia and in England and Wales. …
Mental Capacity, Dignity and the Power of International Human Rights
Av Julia Duffy
Häftad, 2026
428 kr
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Personhood, in liberal philosophical and legal traditions, has long been grounded in the idea of autonomy and the right to legal capacity. However, in this book, Julia Duffy questions these assumptions and shows how such beliefs exclude and undermine the rights of adults with cognitive disability. …
Mental Capacity, Dignity and the Power of International Human Rights
Av Julia Duffy
Inbunden, 2023
1645 kr
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Personhood, in liberal philosophical and legal traditions, has long been grounded in the idea of autonomy and the right to legal capacity. However, in this book, Julia Duffy questions these assumptions and shows how such beliefs exclude and undermine the rights of adults with cognitive disability. …
Regulatory Violence
The Global Dynamics of Regulatory Experimentation in Biomedicine and Health
Inbunden, 2025
1407 kr
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International case-studies on regulation and science collaboration show how competition and economic pressures on the national regulators of biomedicine condition the development of jurisdictive regulations. But regulation that fails to guarantee a jurisdiction's optimal protection of patients and …
Regulatory Violence
The Global Dynamics of Regulatory Experimentation in Biomedicine and Health
Häftad, 2025
478 kr
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International case-studies on regulation and science collaboration show how competition and economic pressures on the national regulators of biomedicine condition the development of jurisdictive regulations. But regulation that fails to guarantee a jurisdiction's optimal protection of patients and …
Values and Disorder in Mental Capacity Law
Häftad, 2025
428 kr
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This book draws on the disciplines of law, philosophy, and psychiatry to interrogate whether the Mental Capacity Act 2005 meets the challenges posed by mental disorder to decision-making. It is often assumed that to allow space for individuality, any test for capacity must focus only on …
Values and Disorder in Mental Capacity Law
Inbunden, 2024
1573 kr
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This book draws on the disciplines of law, philosophy, and psychiatry to interrogate whether the Mental Capacity Act 2005 meets the challenges posed by mental disorder to decision-making. It is often assumed that to allow space for individuality, any test for capacity must focus only on …
Relating to People Living with Dementia as Equals
Towards Social Justice in Dementia Care
Inbunden, 2026
1588 kr
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This book offers a moral and political analysis of the social position of people living with dementia. It takes a relational egalitarian view on the demands of justice, reflecting on what would be required for our society to become one in which we relate to members of this group as equals. By …
Appearance, Disability and the Law
Inbunden, 2025
1513 kr
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People with disfigurements often face prejudice, exclusion and discrimination in employment and across other life contexts. Law's response to this evidence is flawed both by its own limited and illogical scope and its failure to understand the perspectives of those people who may need to use it. …
After Disability Rights
Confronting Ableism at Life's Margins
Inbunden, 2026
1588 kr
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Despite increasing global respect for disability rights since the 2008 entry into force of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the equal right to live in the world for disabled people continues to be undermined. This undermining stems from a range of factors, not …
A Pyramid Approach to Surrogacy Law
Insights from Sri Lanka, India, and the UK
Häftad, 2026
486 kr
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Surrogacy is a rapidly evolving global phenomenon that raises profound legal, ethical, and social questions. This book offers a pioneering Rights-Based Pyramid Approach, balancing adults' rights through liberty, equality, and vulnerability, to secure the best interests of children at the centre. …
A Pyramid Approach to Surrogacy Law
Insights from Sri Lanka, India, and the UK
Inbunden, 2026
1581 kr
Kommande
Surrogacy is a rapidly evolving global phenomenon that raises profound legal, ethical, and social questions. This book offers a pioneering Rights-Based Pyramid Approach, balancing adults' rights through liberty, equality, and vulnerability, to secure the best interests of children at the centre. …
Selecting against Disability in the Liberal State
Choice, Equality, and the Limits of Neutrality
Inbunden, 2026
2132 kr
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Throughout the world, in liberal states, it is common to use prenatal selection techniques and procedures which can prevent the birth of a disabled child. A common assumption is that this practice is driven by individual choice, and that the state itself is neutral. If instead the state was not …
End-of-Life Decisions in Medical Care
Principles and Policies for Regulating the Dying Process
Inbunden, 2012
1813 kr
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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 ethical principles including ideas such as moral status, the value of life, acts and omissions, harm, autonomy, dignity and paternalism. It then …
Genetic Data and the Law
A Critical Perspective on Privacy Protection
Av Mark Taylor
Inbunden, 2012
1612 kr
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Research using genetic data raises various concerns relating to privacy protection. Many of these concerns can also apply to research that uses other personal data, but not with the same implications for failure. The norms of exclusivity associated with a private life go beyond the current legal …
The Connected Self
The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual
Inbunden, 2013
1396 kr
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Currently, the ethics infrastructure - from medical and scientific training to the scrutiny of ethics committees - focuses on trying to reform informed consent to do a job which it is simply not capable of doing. Consent, or choice, is not an effective ethical tool in public ethics and is …
What Makes Health Public?
A Critical Evaluation of Moral, Legal, and Political Claims in Public Health
Av John Coggon
Inbunden, 2012
1573 kr
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John Coggon argues that the important question for analysts in the fields of public health law and ethics is 'what makes health public?' He offers a conceptual and analytic scrutiny of the salient issues raised by this question, outlines the concepts entailed in, or denoted by, the term 'public …
Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law
Av Margaret Brazier, Suzanne Ost
Inbunden, 2013
1648 kr
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To date, little analysis exists of the criminal process's roles as a regulator of medical practice and as an arbiter of bioethics, nor whether criminal law is an appropriate forum for judging ethical medical dilemmas. The conscription of criminal law into moral controversy and the (perceived) rise …
Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice
Inbunden, 2012
1165 kr
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Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice provides a rich, case-based account of the ethical issues arising in the genetics clinic and laboratory. By analysing a wide range of evocative and often arresting cases from practice, Michael Parker provides a compelling insight into the complex moral world …
Privacy, Confidentiality, and Health Research
Inbunden, 2012
1143 kr
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The potential of the e-health revolution, increased data sharing, database linking, biobanks and new techniques such as geolocation and genomics to advance human health is immense. For the full potential to be realized, though, privacy and confidentiality will have to be dealt with carefully. …
Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law
Av Danielle Griffiths, Andrew Sanders
Inbunden, 2013
1928 kr
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In recent years, debates have arisen concerning the encroachment of the criminal process in regulating fatal medical error, the implementation of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 and the recent release of the Director of Public Prosecution's assisted suicide policy. …
Criminal Law, Philosophy and Public Health Practice
Av A. M. Viens, John Coggon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1648 kr
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The goal of improving public health involves the use of different tools, with the law being one way to influence the activities of institutions and individuals. Of the regulatory mechanisms afforded by law to achieve this end, criminal law remains a perennial mechanism to delimit the scope of …
Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law
Av Amel Alghrani, Rebecca Bennett m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1648 kr
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Who should define what constitutes ethical and lawful medical practice? Judges? Doctors? Scientists? Or someone else entirely? This volume analyses how effectively criminal law operates as a forum for resolving ethical conflict in the delivery of health care. It addresses key questions such as: how …
Human Cloning
Four Fallacies and their Legal Consequences
Inbunden, 2012
1573 kr
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Since Dolly the sheep was born, controversy has swirled around the technology of cloning. We recoil at the prospect of human copies, manufactured men and women, nefarious impersonators and resurrections of the dead. Such reactions have serious legal consequences: lawmakers have banned stem cell …
Self-Ownership, Property Rights, and the Human Body
A Legal and Philosophical Analysis
Inbunden, 2018
1987 kr
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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 these. Quigley argues that advancing biotechnology means that the law must confront and move boundaries which it has constructed; in particular, …
Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy
An Argument against Legalisation
Av John Keown
Inbunden, 2018
1573 kr
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This book argues against the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia and/or physician-assisted suicide on the ground that, even if they were ethically defensible in certain 'hard cases', neither could be effectively controlled by law. It maintains that the experience of legalisation in the …
Solidarity and Justice in Health and Social Care
Inbunden, 2017
1723 kr
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In this timely book, Ruud ter Meulen argues that the current trend towards individual financial responsibility for health and social care should not be at the expense of the welfare of vulnerable and dependent individuals. Written with a multidisciplinary perspective, the book presents a new view …
Solidarity in Biomedicine and Beyond
Av Barbara Prainsack, Alena Buyx
Inbunden, 2017
1872 kr
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In times of global economic and political crises, the notion of solidarity is gaining new currency. This book argues that a solidarity-based perspective can help us to find new ways to address pressing problems. Exemplified by three case studies from the field of biomedicine: databases for health …
