Pattinson Revisiting Landmark Cases in Medical Law

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-317-61279-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten

Reihe: Biomedical Law and Ethics Library

The development of medical law in the UK has been shaped by landmark decisions on such issues as consent, child welfare, genetics, and assisted suicide. Drawing on legal developments in the UK, US, and other jurisdictions, this book revisits a selection of leading cases in medical law, and argues that while the judgments in each came to the correct conclusion, many issues were left unaddressed, and have led to avoidable confusion. Shaun Pattinson presents an idealised judgment for each case, written with the benefit of hindsight and offered with the intention to provide insight into how the court could have supported its conclusions in a way that is more coherent and of greater value as a principle-setting precedent.

Each case has been selected for its status as a landmark decision on novel issues and points of law, supported by incomplete or otherwise inadequate judicial reasoning. Cases include R v Adams and the issue of life-shortening and palliative care, Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech AHA and the decision-making capacities of children, and R (Quintavalle) v Secretary of State for Health and the question of human cloning.

The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of medical law and ethics, moral philosophy, and family & child welfare.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pattinson, Shaun D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinrecht, Gesundheitsrecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Medizin- und Gesundheitsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. R v Adams: Life-Shortening Palliative Care 3. Gillick: A Child’s Consent 4. Bland: Patients in a Persistent/Permanent Vegetative State 5. Re MB: Refusal of Treatment in Late Pregnancy 6. Re A: Lethal Separation of Conjoined Twins 7. Quintavalle: Cloning within the Legislative Framework 8. Purdy: Assisted Suicide 9. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Shaun D. Pattinson is Professor of Medical Law and Ethics at Durham University Law School, Founding Director of Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences), and Visiting Associate Professor at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University.