ABSTRACT
This book celebrates Professor Margaret Brazier’s outstanding contribution to the field of healthcare law and bioethics. It examines key aspects developed in Professor Brazier’s agenda-setting body of work, with contributions being provided by leading experts in the field from the UK, Australia, the US and continental Europe. They examine a range of current and future challenges for healthcare law and bioethics, representing state-of-the-art scholarship in the field.
The book is organised into five parts. Part I discusses key principles and themes in healthcare law and bioethics. Part II examines the dynamics of the patient–doctor relationship, in particular the role of patients. Part III explores legal and ethical issues relating to the human body. Part IV discusses the regulation of reproduction, and Part V examines the relationship between the criminal law and the healthcare process.
Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 3.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |72 pages
Key principles and themes in healthcare law
chapter |12 pages
The value of human life in healthcare law
chapter |11 pages
Beyond medicine, patients and the law
part |52 pages
Patient–doctor relations
chapter |12 pages
(I love you!) I do, I do, I do, I do, I do
part |56 pages
Law, ethics and the human body
chapter |13 pages
Exploring the legacy of the Retained Organs Commission a decade on
part |58 pages
Regulating reproduction
part |49 pages
The criminal law and the healthcare process
