Law and bioethics / edited by Michael Freeman.
Contributors: Freeman, Michael D. A.
Series: Current legal issues -- v. 11
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford [UK]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780199545520
Subjects: Medical laws and legislation; Medical care -- Law and legislation; Genetic engineering -- Law and legislation; Bioethics
Description: Containing a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and bioethics, this title includes studies examining the regulation of stem cell research, human rights and bioethics, the regulation of reproductive technologies, and distributive justice in healthcare and pandemic planning.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Law and bioethics : constructing the inter-discipline / Michael Freeman; title: Bioethics : bridging from morality to law? / Roger Brownsword; title: The troubled relationship between bioethics and human rights / Richard Ashcroft; title: Law and bioethics : a rights-based relationship and its troubling implications / Daniel Sperling; title: Health, global justice, and virtue bioethics / Katerina Sideri; title: Law, human rights, and the bioethical discourse / Michael Freeman; title: Magic, myths, and fairy tales : consent and the relationship between law and ethics / Alasdair R. Maclean; title: Stem cell promises-rhetoric and reality / John hearn; title: Motivating values and regulatory models for emerging technologies : stem cell research regulation in Argentina and the United Kingdom / Shawn He Harmon; title: Cultures of life : embryo protection and the pluralist state / Patrick Hanafin; title: Precautionary reasoning in determining moral worth / Stephen W. Smith; title: Marketing masculinity : bioethics and sperm banking practices in the United States / Cynthia R. Daniels; title: Bioethics and law in action-mining the gaps : the human genome research project / Mark Henaghan; title: Synthetic biology and (re)productive liberties : biosecurity, biosecrecy, and regulating new technologies with futures in mind / Robin Mackenzie; title: Exploring the routes from consultation to (in)forming public policy / Caroline Jones; title: The donation of eggs for research and the rise of neopaternalism / Emily Jackson; title: Regulating the reproductive revolution : ectogenesis- a regulatory minefield? / Amel Alghrani; title: Surrogacy : is there room for a new liberty between the French prohibitive position and the English ambivalence? / Myriam Hunter-Henin; title: Children with severe disabilities and their families : re-examining private responsibilities and public obligations from a caring perspective / Jo Bridgeman; title: Nanomedicine-small particles, big issues : a new regulatory dawn for health care law and bioethics? / Jean V. Mchale; title: The place of carers / Jonathan Herring; title: Gender inequalities in health research : an Australian perspective / Belinda Bennett, Isabel Karpin, Angela Ballantyne, and Wendy Rogers; title: Pandemic planning and distributive justice in health care / Leslie P. Francis, Margaret P. Battin, Jay A. Jacobson, and Charles B. Smith; title: Humanitarian intervention and medical epidemics / Bruce M. Landesman; title: The age of deference-a historical anomaly / Margaret Brazier.