First Do No Harm: Law, Ethics and Healthcare

by Sheila A. M. McLean (Editor)

Overview

This collection brings together essays from leading figures in the field of medical law and ethics which address the key issues currently challenging scholars in the field. It has also been compiled as a lasting testimony to the work of one of the most eminent scholars in the area, Professor Ken Mason. The collection marks the academic crowning of a career which has laid one of the foundation stones of an entire discipline. The wide-ranging contents and the standing of the contributors mean that the volume will be an invaluable resource for anyone studying or working in medical law or medical ethics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317134978
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/15/2016
Series:	Applied Legal Philosophy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	624
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Professor McLean is the first holder of the International Bar Association Chair of Law and Ethics in Medicine at Glasgow University and is Director of the Institute of Law and Ethics in Medicine at Glasgow University.

Table of Contents

1: The Legitimacy of Medical Law; 2: Cases and Casuistry; 3: Medical Ethics: Hippocratic and Democratic Ideals; 4: Contemporary Challenges in the Regulation of Health Practitioners; 5: The International Health Regulations: A New Paradigm for Global Health Governance?; 6: International Medical Research Regulation: From Ethics to Law 1; 7: Ethical and Policy Issues Related to Medical Error and Patient Safety; 8: Autonomy and Its Limits: What Place for the Public Good? 1; 9: The Autonomy of Others: Reflections on the Rise and Rise of Patient Choice in Contemporary Medical Law; 10: Conceptualising Privacy in Relation to Medical Research Values; 11: Human ‘Guinea Pigs': Why Patients Participate in Clinical Trials; 12: Human(s) (as) Medicine(s) 1; 13: The Ethical Challenges of Biobanks: Safeguarding Altruism and Trust; 14: Law Reform, Clinical Research and Adults without Mental Capacity – Much Needed Clarification or a Recipe for Further Uncertainty?; 15: Continuing Conundrums in Competency; 16: Chester v. Afshar: Sayonara, Sub Silentio, Sidaway?; 17: ‘Informed Consent' to Medical Treatment and the Impotence of Tort; 18: Mark Anthony or Macbeth: Some Problems Concerning the Dead and the Incompetent when it Comes to Consent; 19: No More ‘Shock, Horror'? The Declining Significance of ‘Sudden Shock' and the ‘Horrifying Event’ in Psychiatric Injury Claims; 20: Is There a Right Not to Procreate? 1; 21: Conscientious Objection: A Shield or a Sword?; 22: Classifying Abortion as a Health Matter: The Case for De-criminalising Abortion Laws in Australia; 23: What's Love Got to Do With It? Regulating Reproductive Technologies and Second Hand Emotions; 24: Saviour Siblings; 25: Wrongful Life, the Welfare Principle and the Non-Identity Problem: Some Further Complications; 26: Life-Prolonging Treatment and Patients' Legal Rights; 27: From Bland to Burke: The Law and Politics of Assisted Nutrition and Hydration; 28: Euthanasia as a Human Right; 29: The Futility of Opposing the Legalisation of Non-voluntary and Voluntary Euthanasia; 30: Defending the Council of Europe's Opposition to Euthanasia 1; 31: Newborn Screening for Sickle Cell Disease: Socio-Ethical Implications; 32: The ‘Do No Harm' Principle and the Genetic Revolution in New Zealand; 33: Cloning, Zoning and the Harm Principle; 34: Exposing Harm: The Erasure of Animal Bodies in Healthcare Law; 35: Is the Gender Recognition Act 2004 as Important as It Seems? 1; 36: The Positive Side of Healthcare Rights; 37: In Defence of Doctors

Editorial Reviews

'...it is imperative that works of the calibre of First Do No Harm are published...it is a valuable resource for individuals, particularly academics and postgraduate students in the disciplines of health law, medical ethics and philosophy...the chapters are of an extremely high standard, and make a valuable contribution to the literature. Bringing together such a large number of accomplished authors from a variety of disciplines and countries was an ambitious exercise, one that Professor McLean has achieved with distinction.' Journal of Law and Medicine 'In First Do No Harm, not only is the work of Professor Ken Mason celebrated, contributors have sought to take some issues in medical law further and, as such, it provides much more than a celebration of Ken Mason's innovative contribution to the discipline of ethics and medical law from its early beginnings. This is not like most festschrift texts- the expertise of the contributors brought together in this volume presents the reader with a collection of articles that functions well as an informative and insightful text book...Specialists and researchers in this field will find this a very worthwhile collection, both as a retrospective perusal of Ken Mason's influence, and as a contemporary analysis of the debates he has had an important role in shaping.' Medical Law Review 'The wide-ranging contents plus the standing of the contributors mean that the volume will be an invaluable resource for anyone studying or working in medical law or medical ethics...The collection is comprehensive, rich in argument, balanced, interesting; and, in addition to reviewing and criticizing what is, it also argues for what ought to be in the wide area of medical ethics.' Metapsychology

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