Medical and healthcare law

Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health examines critical issues and debates including access to knowledge and medicinal products, human rights and development, innovations in life technologies and the possibility for ethical frameworks for intellectual property law and its application in public health.

Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health examines critical issues and debates, including access to knowledge and medicinal products, human rights and development, innovations in life technologies and the possibility for ethical frameworks for intellectual property law and its application in public health.

Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health examines critical issues and debates, including access to knowledge and medicinal products, human rights and development, innovations in life technologies and the possibility for ethical frameworks for intellectual property law and its application in public health.

The Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, 2005, marked a significant step towards the recognition of universal standards in the field of science and medicine.

The Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, 2005, marked a significant step towards the recognition of universal standards in the field of science and medicine.

This book develops a legal argument as to how persons with intellectual disability can flourish in a liberal setting through the exercise of human rights, even though they are perceived as non-autonomous.

This book develops a legal argument as to how persons with intellectual disability can flourish in a liberal setting through the exercise of human rights, even though they are perceived as non-autonomous.

There has been a rapid increase in the pace and scope of international collaborative research in developing countries in recent years.

There has been a rapid increase in the pace and scope of international collaborative research in developing countries in recent years.

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.