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Introduction: law and legacy in medical jurisprudence Edward Dove and Niamh Nic Shuibhne; 1. Doing medical law and ethics: putting interdisciplinarity to work Sharon Cowan, Emily Postan and Nayha Sethi; 2. A philosopher looks at 'law and medical ethics' Richard Ashcroft; 3. Thinking outside the box: Graeme Laurie's legacy to medical jurisprudence Roger Brownsword; 4. The public interest in health research: from concept to context Annie Sorbie; 5. Taking the legacy of liminality forward: reflections on Graeme Laurie's approach to liminality and its relevance for the ethics and governance of reproduction Catriona McMillan and Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra; 6. The once and future importance of impact Eric M. Meslin; 7. Breathing life into law: what it means to take an ethics+ approach to conceptualise law in research governance Calvin Ho and Justin Wong; 8. Biomedical research policy: back to the future? Bartha Maria Knoppers, Ruth Chadwick and Michael Beauvais; 9. The burden of history: how past scandals have shaped the future governance of human tissue and health data Nils Hoppe and José Miola; 10. Body parts and baleful stars? Margaret Brazier and Alexandra Mullock; 11. The legacy of the Warnock Report Emily Jackson; 12. Escape from the medically assisted suicide spiral Murray Earle; 13. Integrating the biological and the technological: time to move beyond law's binaries? Muireann Quigley and Laura Downey; 14. UK Biobank and the legal regulation of genetic research: preserving the legacy and empowering future regulation Jean McHale; 15. Overcoming the regulatory impasse in stem cell research and advanced therapy medicines in Argentina through shared norms and values Fabiana Arzuaga; 16. Institutions, interpretive communities and legacy in decision-making: a case study of patents, morality and biotechnological inventions Aisling McMahon; 17. Towards a new privacy: informed consent as an encumbrance to group interests? Mark Taylor and David Townend; 18. A tale of two legacies: drawing on humanist interpretations to animate the right to the benefits of science Shawn Harmon; Afterword - the great coronavirus pandemic: a pivotal moment for health law and ethics: an afterword in appreciation of Graeme Laurie's legacy to the field Lawrence Gostin.
About the author
Edward S. Dove is Lecturer in Health Law and Regulation at the University of Edinburgh. His research examines confidentiality and data protection law as well as the regulatory work of research ethics committees and other bodies involved in health research. He is the author of Regulatory Stewardship of Health Research: Navigating Participant Protection and Research Promotion (2020).Niamh Nic Shuibhne is Professor of European Union Law at the University of Edinburgh, and a joint editor of the Common Market Law Review. Her research examines questions of substantive EU law from a constitutional perspective. She recently completed a project on equal treatment for EU citizens, funded by a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2016–2019).
