First Do No Harm: Law, Ethics and Healthcare

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ISBN: 9780754626145 | 0754626148
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/28/2006

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This collection of essays from leading figures in the field of medical law and ethics is a lasting testimony to the work of one of the most eminent scholars in the area, Professor Ken Mason. The wide-ranging contents and the standing of the contributors mean that this collection will be an invaluable resource for anyone studying or working in medical law or medical ethics.

Preface
Ken Mason - an appreciation
The legitimacy of medical law
Cases and casuistry
Medical ethics: Hippocratic and democratic ideals
Contemporary challenges in the regulation of health practitioners
The international health regulations: a new paradigm for global health governance?
International medical research regulation: from ethics to law
Ethical and policy issues related to medical error and patient safety
Autonomy and its limits: what place for the public good? Veronica English
The autonomy of others: reflections on the rise and rise of patient choice in contemporary medical law
Conceptualizing privacy in relation to medical research
Human 'guinea pigs': why patients participate in clinical trials
Human(s) (as) medicine(s)
The ethical challenges of biobanks: safeguarding altruism and trust
Law reform, clinical research and adults without medical capacity - much needed clarification or a recipe for further uncertainty?
Continuing conundrums in competency
Chester v Afshar: Sayonara, sub silentio, Sidaway?
'Informed consent' to medical treatment and the impotence of tort
Mark Anthony or Macbeth: some problems concerning the dead and the incompetent when it comes to consent
No more 'shock, horror'? The declining significance of 'sudden shock' and the 'horrifying event' in psychiatric injury claims
Is there a right not to procreate?
Conscientious objection: a shield or a sword?
Classifying abortion as a health matter: the case for de-criminalizing abortion laws in Australia
What's love got to do with it? Regulating reproductive technologies and second hand emotions
Saviour siblings
Wrongful life, the welfare principle and the non-identity problem: some further complications
Life-prolonging treatment and patients' legal rights
From Bland to Burke: the law and politics of assisted nutrition and hydration
Euthanasia as a human right
The futility of opposing the legalization of non-voluntary and voluntary euthanasia
Defending the council of Europe's opposition to euthanasia
Newborn screening for sickle cell disease: socio-ethical implications
The 'Do No Harm' principle and the genetic revolution in New Zealand
Cloning, zoning and the harm principle
Exposing harm: the erasure of animal bodies in healthcare law
Is the Gender Recognition Act 2004 as important as it seems?
The positive side of healthcare rights
In defence of doctors
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