Law and Bioethics - Current Legal Issues 2008

Informationen zum Autor Michael Freeman is Professor of English Law at University College London, he is the series editor for Current Legal Issues. Klappentext Current Legal Issues! like its sister volume Current Legal Problems! is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London. Each year! leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought. Each colloquium examines how the external discipline is conceived in legal thought and argument! how the law is pictured in that discipline! and analyses points of controversy in the use! and abuse! of extra-legal arguments within legal theory and practice. Law and Bioethics! the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series! contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and bioethics. It includes studies examining the regulation of stem cell research! human rights and bioethics! the regulation of reproductive technologies! and distributive justice in healthcare and pandemic planning. Zusammenfassung Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems, is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London. Each year, leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought. Each colloqium examines how the external discipline is conceived in legal thought and argument, how the law is pictured in that discipline, and analyses points of controversy in the use, and abuse, of extra-legal arguments within legal theory and practice. Law and Bioethics, the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series, contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and bioethics. It includes studies examining the regulation of stem cell research, human rights and bioethics, the regulation of reproductive technologies, and distributive justice in healthcare and pandemic planning....

Product details

• Authors: Michael Freeman, Michael (EDT) Freeman
• Assisted by: Michael Freeman (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2009
• EAN: 9780199545520
• ISBN: 978-0-19-954552-0
• No. of pages: 482
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Current Legal Issues; Current Legal Issues
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Medizinethik, Standesregeln, MEDICAL / Ethics, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, LAW / Medical Law & Legislation, Legal Reference / Law Profession, Ethics & moral philosophy, Bioethics, Ethics and moral philosophy, Bio-ethics, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Medicolegal issues