Bioethics, medicine, and the criminal law. Volume I, The criminal law and bioethical conflict : walking the tightrope / edited by Amel Alghrani, Rebecca Bennett and Suzanne Ost

Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Physical Description: xvi, 290 pages ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators: Alghrani, Amel, Bennett, Rebecca, 1969-, and Ost, Suzanne

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Cambridge bioethics and law

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Introduction : when criminal law encounters bioethics: a case of tensions and incompatibilities or an apt forum for resolving ethical conflict? / Amel Alghrani, Rebecca Bennett and Suzanne Ost -- Euthanasia and assisted suicide should, when properly performed by a doctor in an appropriate case, be decriminalised / John Griffiths -- Five flawed arguments for decriminalising euthanasia / John Keown -- Euthanasia excused : between prohibition and permission / Richard Huxtable -- Body integrity identity disorder : a problem of perception? / Robert Smith -- Risky sex and "manly diversions" : the contours of consent in HIV transmission and rough horseplay cases / David Gurnham -- "Consensual" sexual activity between doctors and patients : a matter for the criminal law? / Suzanne Ost and Hazel Biggs -- "Scientists in the dock" : regulating science / Amel Alghrani and Sarah Chan -- Bioethical conflict and developing biotechnologies : is protecting individual and public health from the risks of xenotransplantation a matter for the (criminal) law? / Sara Fovargue -- The criminal law and enhancement : none of the law's business? / Nishat Hyder and John Harris -- Dignity as a socially constructed value / Stephen Smith -- Can English law accommodate moral controversy in medicine? : lessons from abortion / Margaret Brazier -- The case for decriminalising abortion in Northern Ireland / Marie Fox -- The impact of the loss of deference towards the medical profession / Jose; Miola -- Criminalising medical negligence / David Archard -- All to the good? : criminality, politics, and public health / John Coggon -- Moral controversy, human rights and the common law judge / Brenda Hale.

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9781107025127 (hardback)
1107025125 (hardback)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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