Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law

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Summary

This volume considers the ethical legitimacy of invoking the criminal law to regulate medical and scientific practice and bioethical issues.

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Introduction - when criminal law encounters bioethics: a case of tensions and incompatibilities or an apt forum for resolving ethical conflict?
Death, Dying, and the Criminal Law
Euthanasia and assisted suicide should, when properly performed by a doctor in an appropriate case, be decriminalised
Five flawed arguments for decriminalising euthanasia
Euthanasia excused: between prohibition and permission
Freedom and Autonomy: When Consent Is Not Enough
Body integrity identity disorder - a problem of perception?
Risky sex and 'manly diversions': the contours of consent in criminal law - transmission and rough horseplay cases
'Consensual' sexual activity between doctors and patients: a matter for the criminal law?
Criminalising Biomedical Science
'Scientists in the dock': regulating science
Bioethical conflict and developing biotechnologies: is protecting individual and public health from the risks of xenotransplantation a matter for the (criminal) law?
The criminal law and enhancement - none of the law's business?
Dignity as a socially constructed value
Bioethics and Criminal Law in the Dock
Can English law accommodate moral controversy in medicine? The case of abortion
The case for decriminalising abortion in Northern Ireland
The impact of the loss of deference towards the medical profession
Criminalising medical negligence
All to the good? Criminality, politics, and public health
Moral controversy, human rights and the common law judge
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