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Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law Medicine, Crime and Society

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ISBN-10: 1107021537

ISBN-13: 9781107021532

Edition: 2013

Authors: Danielle Griffiths, Andrew Sanders

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In recent years, debates have arisen concerning the encroachment of the criminal process in regulating fatal medical error, the implementation of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 and the recent release of the Director of Public Prosecution's assisted suicide policy. Consequently, questions have been raised regarding the extent to which such intervention helps, or if it in fact hinders, the sustained development of medical practice. In this collection, Danielle Griffiths and Andrew Sanders explore the operation of the criminal process in healthcare in the UK as well as in other jurisdictions, including the USA, Australia, New Zealand, France and the Netherlands.…    
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List price: $89.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/31/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Danielle Griffiths is a research fellow at the University of Manchester.

Andrew Sanders is emeritus Professor of English at the University of Durham. He has written four substantial studies of Dickens and is widely published in Victorian literature and culture, also having edited and annotated paperback editions of Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House and A Tale of Two Cities. He is a past President of the Dickens Fellowship and a Trustee of the Charles Dickens Museum.

The 'doctoring type'
'The sleep of death': 150 years of anaesthesia-related mortality and the courts
Victims and prosecution policy
The road to the dock: prosecution decision-making in medical manslaughter cases
Medical manslaughter: the role of context and character
Doctors who kill and harm their patients: the Australian experience
Medical manslaughter: organisational liability
'From prosecution to rehabilitation': New Zealand's response to health professional negligence
The role of the criminal law in healthcare in France: examining the HIV blood contamination scandal
Pain relief, prescription drugs, and prosecution in the US
Exploring the tension between physician-assisted dying and palliative medicine
Psychiatric care and criminal prosecution
'Involuntary automaticity' and medical manslaughter
Maternity services and the impact of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
Disease transmission and prosecution