The criminal justice system and health care
By: edited by Charles A. Erin and Suzanne Ost.
Contributors: Erin, Charles A.; Ost, Suzanne.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780199228294
Subjects: Medical personnel -- Malpractice; Medical care -- Law and legislation -- Criminal provisions; Medical laws and legislation -- Criminal provisions; Criminal justice, Administration of
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An ill-suited and inappropriate union? : exploring the relationship between the criminal justice system and health care / Suzanne Ost and Charles A. Erin; title: Criminalizing medical malpractice / Margaret Brazier and Neil Allen; title: Medical manslaughter : the rise (and replacement) of a contested crime? / Oliver Quick; title: Medical or managerial manslaughter? / Neil Allen; title: When are errors a crime? : lessons from New Zealand / Alan Forbes Merry; title: Euthanasia and the defence of necessity : advocating a more appropriate legal response / Suzanne Ost; title: Criminal law is the problem, not the solution / John Griffiths; title: Lessons in legal and judicial ethics from Schiavo : the special responsibilities of lawyers and judges in cases involving persons with severe cognitive disabilities / Robert A. Destro; title: Medical treatment at the end of life-a British doctor's perspective / Michael Wilks; title: Dignity : the difference between abortion and neonaticide for severe disability / Stephen W. Smith; title: Terminating life and human rights : the fetus and the neonate / Elizabeth Wicks; title: Non-treatment of severely disabled newborns and criminal liability under spanish law / Sergio Romeo-Malanda; title: Should we criminalize HIV transmission? / Rebecca Bennett; title: The rightful domain of the criminal law / Charles A. Erin; title: Medicalizing crime-criminalizing health? the role of law / Jonathan Montgomery.