| Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law: Volume 1, the Criminal Law and Bioethical Conflict: Walking the Tightrope Contributor(s): Alghrani, Amel (Editor), Bennett, Rebecca (Editor), Ost, Suzanne (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1139177389 ISBN-13: 9781139177382 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $156.75 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: November 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Health |
| Dewey: 344.032 |
| Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Who should define what constitutes ethical and lawful medical practice? Judges? Doctors? Scientists? Or someone else entirely? This volume analyses how effectively criminal law operates as a forum for resolving ethical conflict in the delivery of health care. It addresses key questions such as: how does criminal law regulate controversial bioethical areas? What effect, positive or negative, does the use of criminal law have when regulating bioethical conflict? And can the law accommodate moral controversy? By exploring criminal law in theory and in practice and examining the broad field of bioethics as opposed to the narrower terrain of medical ethics, it offers balanced arguments that will help readers form reasoned views on the ethical legitimacy of the invocation and use of criminal law to regulate medical and scientific practice and bioethical issues. |
Contributor Bio(s): Alghrani, Amel: - Amel Alghrani is a Research Fellow at Manchester University.Bennett, Rebecca: - Rebecca Bennett is a Senior Lecturer in Bioethics at Manchester University.Ost, Suzanne: - Suzanne Ost is a Professor of Law at Lancaster University. |