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    A Comparative Analysis of Compelled Obstetric Intervention

    by Sam Halliday ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    Technology has come to dominate the modern experience of pregnancy and childbirth, but instead of empowering pregnant women, technology has been used to identify the foetus as a second patient characterised as a distinct entity with its own needs and interests. Often, foetal and the woman’s interests will be aligned, though in legal and medical discourses the two ‘patients’ are frequently framed ... Read more

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  • Should Trees Have Standing?

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    Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing? was a rallying point for the then burgeoning environmental movement, launching a worldwide debate on the basic nature of legal rights that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, in the 35th anniversary edition of this remarkably influential book, Christopher D. Stone updates his original thesis and explores the impact his ideas have had on ... Read more

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  • In Search of the Ethical Lawyer

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    Edited by Adam Dodek, Alice Woolley ...
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  • The Consciousness of the Litigator

    by Duffy Graham ...
    "An important and thought-provoking addition to the literature on the ethics of lawyers."---Kimberly Kirkland, Franklin Pierce Law CenterThe Consciousness of the Litigator investigates the role of the lawyer in modern American political and social life and in the judicial process, and plumbs lawyers' perceptions of themselves, their work, and, especially, their sense of right and wrong.In so doing ... Read more

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  • Big Data

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    Big Data: A Business and Legal Guide supplies a clear understanding of the interrelationships between Big Data, the new business insights it reveals, and the laws, regulations, and contracting practices that impact the use of the insights and the data. Providing business executives and lawyers (in-house and in private practice) with an accessible p ... Read more

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  • Bioethics

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    This book is a philosophically-oriented introduction to bioethics. It offers the reader an overview of key debates in bioethics relevant to various areas including; organ retrieval, stem cell research, justice in healthcare and issues in environmental ethics, including issues surrounding food and agriculture. The book also seeks to go beyond simply describing the issues in order to provide the ... Read more

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  • Ethics, Law and Society

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  • The Connected Self

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    What Role for the Medical Exception?

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    Whenever the legitimacy of a new or ethically contentious medical intervention is considered, a range of influences will determine whether the treatment becomes accepted as lawful medical treatment. The development and introduction of abortion, organ donation, gender reassignment, and non-therapeutic cosmetic surgery have, for example, all raised ethical, legal, and clinical issues. This book ... Read more

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