Bioethics, medicine, and the criminal law
Subtitle: medicine, crime, and society
By: [edited by] Danielle Griffiths, Andrew Sanders
Series: Cambridge bioethics and law
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge [UK]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781107021532
Subjects: Medical personnel; Physicians; Malpractice; Bioethics; Criminal law; LAW / Health
Table of contents: title: The unthinkability of healthcare serial killings : the case of Dr Shipman / Brian Hurwitz; title: "The Sleep of Death" : anaesthesia, mortality, and the courts from Ether to Adomako / Barry Lyons; title: Getting mixed up in crime : doctors, disease transmission, confidentiality, and the criminal process / James Chalmers; title: Victims' voices, victims' interests, and criminal justice in the healthcare setting / Andrew Sanders; title: Medical manslaughter and expert evidence : the role of context and character / Oliver Quick; title: The road to the dock : prosecution decision-making in medical manslaughter cases / Danielle Griffiths and Andrew Sanders; title: Psychiatric care and criminal prosecution / Neil Allen; title: Involuntary automaticity and medical manslaughter / Peter Gooderham and Brian Toft; title: Medical Manslaughter : organisational liability / Celia Wells; title: The corporate manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 and maternal death : an opportunity to address systemic deficiencies in maternity services? / Penelope J. Brearey-Horne; title: From prosecution to rehabilitation : New Zealand's response to health practitioner negligence / Ron Paterson; title: Doctors who kill and harm their patients : the Australian experience /  Ian Dobinson; title: The role of the criminal law in healthcare malpractice in France : examining the HIV blood contamination scandal / Anne-Maree Farrell and Melinee Kazarian; title: The use and impact of the criminal process on the treatment of pain in the United States / Stephen J. Zeigler; title: Exploring the tension between physician-assisted dying and palliative medicine / Alex Mullock.