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  • Stem Cell Research and the Collaborative Regulation of Innovation

    by Sarah Devaney ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    Hopes are high that stem cell (SC) research will lead to treatments and cures for some of the most serious diseases affecting humankind today. SC science has been used in a treatment setting in the replacement of patients’ windpipes and in restoring sight to patients who were blind in one eye and in future it is hoped that when the body is injured it will be able to be stimulated to produce those ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Pioneering Healthcare Law

    Essays in Honour of Margaret Brazier

    Edited by Catherine Stanton, Sarah Devaney, Anne-Maree Farrell, Alexandra Mullock ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    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 ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Regulating Patient Safety

    The End of Professional Dominance?

    by Oliver Quick ...
    Series Book 35 - Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    Systematically improving patient safety is of the utmost importance, but it is also an extremely complex and challenging task. This illuminating study evaluates the role of professionalism, regulation and law in seeking to improve safety, arguing that the 'medical dominance' model is ill-suited to this aim, which instead requires a patient-centred vision of professionalism. It brings together ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Bioethics

    Methods, Theories, Domains

    by Marcus Düwell ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    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

    $77.99 USD

  • Criminalising Contagion

    Legal and Ethical Challenges of Disease Transmission and the Criminal Law

    Edited by Catherine Stanton, Hannah Quirk ...
    Series series Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    The use of the criminal law to punish those who transmit disease is a topical and controversial issue. To date, the law, and the related academic literature, has largely focused on HIV transmission. With contributions from leading practitioners and international scholars from a variety of disciplines, this volume explores the broader question of if and when it is appropriate to criminalise the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Autonomy and Pregnancy

    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

    $73.99 USD

  • The Connected Self

    The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual

    by Heather Widdows ...
    Series series Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    Currently, the ethics infrastructure – from medical and scientific training to the scrutiny of ethics committees – focuses on trying to reform informed consent to do a job which it is simply not capable of doing. Consent, or choice, is not an effective ethical tool in public ethics and is particularly problematic in the governance of genetics. Heather Widdows suggests using alternative and ... Read more

    $118.89 USD

  • The Umbilical Cord Blood Controversies in Medical Law

    by Karen Devine ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    Since the therapeutic value of umbilical cord blood (UCB) stem cells was first recognised in the late 1980s, there has been a proliferation of both public and private UCB banks worldwide. However, the ability to utilise such a potentially valuable resource has provoked a number of controversies. In a distinctly accessible style, this book unpacks the socio-legal implications of the UCB collection ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Legitimacy of Medical Treatment

    What Role for the Medical Exception?

    Edited by Sara Fovargue, Alexandra Mullock ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    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

    $66.00 USD

  • Bioproperty, Biomedicine and Deliberative Governance

    Patents as Discourse on Life

    by Katerina Sideri ...
    Biomedical patents have been the subject of heated debate. Regulatory agencies such as the European Patent Office make small decisions with big implications, which escape scrutiny and revision, when they decide who has access to expensive diagnostic tests, whether human embryonic stem cells can be traded in markets, and under what circumstances human health is more important than animal welfare. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Professionalism in Medicine

    A Case-Based Guide for Medical Students

    Edited by John Spandorfer, MD, Charles A. Pohl, MD, Susan L. Rattner, Thomas J. Nasca, MD ...
    Learning medical professionalism is a challenging, evolving, and life-long endeavor. Professionalism in Medicine: A Case-Based Guide for Medical Students helps begin this process by engaging students and their teachers in reflection on cases that resonate with the experiences of life in medicine. Through the book's seventy-two cases, commentaries, videos, and literature-based reviews, students ... Read more

    $58.29 USD

  • What Makes Health Public?

    A Critical Evaluation of Moral, Legal, and Political Claims in Public Health

    by John Coggon ...
    Series Book 15 - Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    John Coggon argues that the important question for analysts in the fields of public health law and ethics is 'what makes health public?' He offers a conceptual and analytic scrutiny of the salient issues raised by this question, outlines the concepts entailed in, or denoted by, the term 'public health' and argues why and how normative analyses in public health are inquiries in political theory. ... Read more

    $45.99 USD