First do no harm
Subtitle: law, ethics, and healthcare
By: edited by Sheila A. M. McLean.
Contributors: McLean, Sheila.
Series: Applied legal philosophy
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 624
Subjects: Medical laws and legislation.; Human experimentation in medicine -- Law and legislation.; Medical ethics.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The legitimacy of medical law / Jonathan Montgomery; title: Cases and casuistry / Robin Downie; title: Contemporary challenges in the regulation of health practitioners / Ian Freckleton; title: The international health regulations : a new paradigm for global health governance? / Lawrence Gostin; title: International medical research regulation : from ethics to law / Don Chalmers; title: Ethical and policy issues related to medical error and patient safety / Gerard Magill; title: Autonomy and its limits : what place for the public good? / Veronica English, Rebecca Mussell, Julian Sheather, Ann Somerville; title: The autonomy of others : reflections on the rise and rise of patient choice in contemporary medical law / Graeme Laurie; title: Conceptualising privacy in relation to medical research / Deryck Beylefeld; title: Human guinea pigs : why patients participate in clinical trials / Pamela Ferguson; title: Human(s) (as) medicine(s) / Margot Brazier; title: The ethical challenges of biobanks : safeguarding altruism and trust / Alastair Campbell; title: Law reform, clinical research, and adults without medical capacity : much needed clarification or a recipe for further uncertainty? / Jean McHale; title: Continuing conundrums in competency / John Devereux; title: Chester v. Afshar : sayonara, sub silentio, sidaway? / David Meyers; title: Informed consent to medical treatment and the impotence of tort / Emily Jackson; title: Mark Antony or Macbeth : some problems concerning the dead and the incompetent when it comes to consent / John Harris; title: No more shock, horror? : the declining significance of sudden shock and the horrifying event in psychiatric injury claims / Harvey Teff; title: Is there a right not to procreate? / Elaine Sutherland; title: Conscientious objection : a shield or a sword? / Bernard Dickens; title: Classifying abortion as a health matter : the case for de-criminalising abortion laws in Australia / Kerry Petersen; title: What's love got to do with it? : regulating reproductive technologies and second hand emotions / Penelope Beem and Derek Morgan; title: Saviour siblings / Michael Freeman; title: Wrongful life, the welfare principle and the non-identity problem : some further complications / Soren Holm; title: Life-prolonging treatment and patients' legal rights / Loane Skene; title: From Bland to Burke : the law and politics of assisted nutrition and hydration / Sheila McLean; title: Euthanasia as a human right / Tom Campbell; title: The futility of opposing the legalisation of non-voluntary and voluntary euthanasia / Len Doyal; title: Defending the Council of Europe's opposition to euthanasia / John Keown; title: Newborn screening for sickle cell disease : socio-ethical implications / Denise Avard, Linda Kharaboyan and Bartha Knoppers; title: The "do no harm" principle and the genetic revolution in New Zealand / Mark Henaghan; title: Cloning, zoning and the harm principle / Roger Brownsword; title: Exposing harm : the erasure of animal bodies in health care law / Marie Fox; title: Is the Gender Recognition Act 2004 as important as it seems? / Kenneth Norrie; title: The positive side of health care rights / Christopher Newdick; title: In defence of doctors / Vivienne Harpwood.