Medical and healthcare law

Over the past 20 years, cognitive neuroscience has revolutionized our ability to understand the nature of human thought.

Over the past 20 years, cognitive neuroscience has revolutionized our ability to understand the nature of human thought.

Healthcare professionals face an increasing threat of litigation from parties whom they have never met in their daily medical practice and who look nothing like the traditional patient.

Healthcare professionals face an increasing threat of litigation from parties whom they have never met in their daily medical practice and who look nothing like the traditional patient.

By defining appropriate boundaries for the defence of insanity and the doctrine of automatism, this book presents a consistent and principled approach to the reform of mental state defences.

By defining appropriate boundaries for the defence of insanity and the doctrine of automatism, this book presents a consistent and principled approach to the reform of mental state defences.

Health rights litigation is still an emerging phenomenon in Africa, despite the constitutions of many African countries having provisions to advance the right to health.

Health rights litigation is still an emerging phenomenon in Africa, despite the constitutions of many African countries having provisions to advance the right to health.

Patenting Lives includes contributions from various interests and perspectives, both in the context of current international developments in life patents and the global agenda of harmonization of international intellectual property.

Patenting Lives includes contributions from various interests and perspectives, both in the context of current international developments in life patents and the global agenda of harmonization of international intellectual property.

Rapid technological advances, the establishment of large-scale biobanks, and the exchange of data across international boundaries raise a variety of questions for regulators struggling with the problem of how to govern such stores of information and the processes connected with them.

Rapid technological advances, the establishment of large-scale biobanks, and the exchange of data across international boundaries raise a variety of questions for regulators struggling with the problem of how to govern such stores of information and the processes connected with them.

In order for the information society to realise its full potential, personal data has to be disclosed, used and often shared.

In order for the information society to realise its full potential, personal data has to be disclosed, used and often shared.

Recognizing Transsexuals draws on interviews with transsexuals at various stages of transition to offer an original account of transsexual embodiment and bodily aesthetics.

Recognizing Transsexuals draws on interviews with transsexuals at various stages of transition to offer an original account of transsexual embodiment and bodily aesthetics.

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.

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.

Advances in the field of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) have been revolutionary.

Advances in the field of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) have been revolutionary.

It is generally accepted in legal and bioethical discourse that the patient has a right to self-determination.

It is generally accepted in legal and bioethical discourse that the patient has a right to self-determination.

Medical confidentiality has long been recognised as a core element of medical ethics, but its boundaries are under constant negotiation.

Medical confidentiality has long been recognised as a core element of medical ethics, but its boundaries are under constant negotiation.

Speaking for the Dead is an incisive examination of the highly topical and often controversial issues surrounding the use of human cadavers in scientific research.

Speaking for the Dead is an incisive examination of the highly topical and often controversial issues surrounding the use of human cadavers in scientific research.

Surrogacy presents particularly complex questions for human rights law and theory.

Surrogacy presents particularly complex questions for human rights law and theory.

This handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current and emerging research and policy on disability law.

This handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current and emerging research and policy on disability law.

How can medical law and ethics take forward the issue of children's empowerment and protection?

How can medical law and ethics take forward the issue of children's empowerment and protection?

Beginning with a focus on the ethical foundations of caregiving in health and expanding towards problems of ethics and justice implicated in a range of issues, this book develops and expands the notion of care itself and its connection to practice.

Beginning with a focus on the ethical foundations of caregiving in health and expanding towards problems of ethics and justice implicated in a range of issues, this book develops and expands the notion of care itself and its connection to practice.

In recent times, the phrase 'personalised medicine' has become the symbol of medical progress and a label for better health care in the future.

In recent times, the phrase 'personalised medicine' has become the symbol of medical progress and a label for better health care in the future.

The regulation of the body provides an important concern in law, medical practice and culture.

The regulation of the body provides an important concern in law, medical practice and culture.

Does the state still frame debates about new technology?

Does the state still frame debates about new technology?

There has been a general assumption in the international debate surrounding organ procurement that Presumed Consent (opting-out) systems produce better results than Express Consent (opting-in) systems.

There has been a general assumption in the international debate surrounding organ procurement that Presumed Consent (opting-out) systems produce better results than Express Consent (opting-in) systems.

Drawing on diverse theoretical and textual sources, The Gender of Suicide presents a critical study of the ways in which contemporary society understands suicide, exploring suicide across a range of key expert bodies of knowledge.

Drawing on diverse theoretical and textual sources, The Gender of Suicide presents a critical study of the ways in which contemporary society understands suicide, exploring suicide across a range of key expert bodies of knowledge.

This groundbreaking book is the first collection to investigate the law, political science and ethical perspectives collectively in relation to the right and value of life.

This groundbreaking book is the first collection to investigate the law, political science and ethical perspectives collectively in relation to the right and value of life.

This book provides a fresh, multidisciplinary, and exciting look at the making and remaking of pharmaceutical patents at the GATT/WTO, by utilising a Coxian political economy of continuity and change in the global political economy (GPE).

This book provides a fresh, multidisciplinary, and exciting look at the making and remaking of pharmaceutical patents at the GATT/WTO, by utilising a Coxian political economy of continuity and change in the global political economy (GPE).

This ground-breaking collection dares to take the next step in the advancement of an autonomous, inter-disciplinary restorative justice field of study.

This ground-breaking collection dares to take the next step in the advancement of an autonomous, inter-disciplinary restorative justice field of study.