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This book provides an introduction to the philosophical underpinnings of medical law and also deals with a number of topical issues, such as euthanasia, abortion, and privacy, which will be of interest to law and philosophy students and scholars.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part A: General Theories
- 1: Robert Gay: Virtue Ethics and Medical Law
- 2: Jonathan Herring: Feminism, Ethics of Care, and Medical Ethics
- 3: Robert P. George and Christopher O. Tollefsen: The Natural Law Foundations of Medical Law
- 4: Julian Savalescu and Dominic Wilkinson: Consequentialism and the Law in Medicine
- 5: Thana C. de Campos: Justice and Responsibility: a Deontological Approach to Medical Law
- 6: Kate Greasley: Abortion, Feminism, and 'Traditional' Moral Philosophy
- 7: Jesse Wall: How the Philosophy Gets In
- Part B: Applications of Theories
- 8: David Albert Jones: Virtue Theory and the Lawfulness of Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment or Care
- 9: Charles Foster: Dignity in Medical Law
- 10: John Keown: The Beginning and Ending of Life: Medical Law and Ethical Incoherence
- 11: Francisco J. Urbina: Proportionality in Medical Law
- 12: Daniel Wang and Benedict Rumbold: Priority Setting, Judicial Review, and Procedural Justice
- 13: Imogen Goold: Philosophy and Restrictions on Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies
- 14: Heloise Robinson: Abortion on the Basis of a Risk of Disability: the Parents' Interests and Shared Interests
- 15: Donna Dickenson: Property in the Body and Medical Law
- 16: Trevor Stammers: Trafficking, Tourism and Trading: A Dark Convergence in Transplantation?
- 17: Kirsty Horsey: Can a Reformed Surrogacy Law Reflect Pragmatism and Respect Ethics?
- 18: Pia Jolliffe and William Jolliffe: Ageing and Fertility: Legal and Ethical Perspectives
- 19: Pip Coore: The Emergence of Family Care Agreements in an Ageing World
- 20: Camilla Kong: The Problem of Mental Capacity in Self-Harming Egosyntonic Disorder
- 21: Carissa Véliz: Medical Privacy and Big Data: a Further Reason in Favour of Public Universal Healthcare Coverage
- 22: Andelka M. Phillips: The Age of Personalized Medicine-From Patients to Consumers: The Digital Environment, Clickwrap Contracts, and Implications for Autonomy
About the author
Andelka M. Phillips is Senior Lecturer at Te Piringa Faculty of Law, University of Waikato and a research associate atUniversity of Oxford's Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX). She was formerly the Ussher Assistant Professor in Information Technology Law at Trinity College Dublin.While at Oxford she was the General Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal and the convenor of the Medical Law and Ethics Discussion Group.
Thana C. de Campos is Assistant Professor at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. She is a research associate at the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights (Rome); the Von Hügel Institute (St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge); and at Las Casas Institute (Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford).
Jonathan Herring is the DM Wolfe-Clarendon Fellow in Law and the Vice-Dean and Professor of Law in the Law Faculty at Oxford University.
Summary
This book provides an introduction to the philosophical underpinnings of medical law and also deals with a number of topical issues, such as euthanasia, abortion, and privacy, which will be of interest to law and philosophy students and scholars.
