Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law The Criminal Law and Bioethical Conflict - Walking the Tightrope

Name: Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law The Criminal Law and Bioethical Conflict - Walking the Tightrope
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ISBN: 9781107025127

ISBN-10: 1107025125

ISBN-13: 9781107025127

Edition: 2012

Authors: Amel Alghrani, Rebecca Bennett, Suzanne Ost

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"Who should define what constitutes ethical and lawful medical practice? Judges? Doctors? Scientists? Or someone else entirely? This volume analyses how effectively criminal law operates as a forum for resolving ethical conflict in the delivery of health care. It addresses key questions such as: how does criminal law regulate controversial bioethical areas? What effect, positive or negative, does the use of criminal law have when regulating bioethical conflict? And can the law accommodate moral controversy? By exploring criminal law in theory and in practice and examining the broad field of bioethics as opposed to the narrower terrain of medical ethics, it offers balanced arguments that…

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List price: $85.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 305
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.21" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Suzanne Ost is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Lancaster University. She is also assistant editor for the Medical Law Review journal and a member of both the Society of Legal Scholars and the Socio-Legal Studies Association.




Introduction - when criminal law encounters bioethics: a case of tensions and incompatibilities or an apt forum for resolving ethical conflict?




Death, Dying, and the Criminal Law



Euthanasia and assisted suicide should, when properly performed by a doctor in an appropriate case, be decriminalised




Five flawed arguments for decriminalising euthanasia




Euthanasia excused: between prohibition and permission




Freedom and Autonomy: When Consent Is Not Enough



Body integrity identity disorder - a problem of perception?




Risky sex and 'manly diversions': the contours of consent in criminal law - transmission and rough horseplay cases




'Consensual' sexual activity between doctors and patients: a matter for the criminal law?




Criminalising Biomedical Science



'Scientists in the dock': regulating science




Bioethical conflict and developing biotechnologies: is protecting individual and public health from the risks of xenotransplantation a matter for the (criminal) law?




The criminal law and enhancement - none of the law's business?




Dignity as a socially constructed value




Bioethics and Criminal Law in the Dock



Can English law accommodate moral controversy in medicine? The case of abortion




The case for decriminalising abortion in Northern Ireland




The impact of the loss of deference towards the medical profession




Criminalising medical negligence




All to the good? Criminality, politics, and public health




Moral controversy, human rights and the common law judge