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This book explores different models of regulating the use of restrictive practices in health care and institutional settings. It will be invaluable to regulators, policymakers, lawyers, clinicians, consumer advocates and academics studying the use and regulation of restrictive practices in mental health, disability and aged care.

This book explores different models of regulating the use of restrictive practices in health care and institutional settings. It will be invaluable to regulators, policymakers, lawyers, clinicians, consumer advocates and academics studying the use and regulation of restrictive practices in mental health, disability and aged care.

Based in part on author's thesis (doctoral - Dalhousie University (Canada), Faculty of Law, 2010) issued under title: Governance of health research involving humans in developing countries: the Nigerian example.

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Deakin University, School of Law (Australia), 2014), under the title: Medico-legal decision making for incapacitated neonates.

Originally published as author's thesis (doctoral - University of Glasgow), 2011.

Advances in human genetics are set to revolutionise the way we think about our health. Within the context of such changing social circumstances, this book identifies novel grievances that might be generated by modern human genetic technologies and considers how the English tort regime might respond to these grievances.

Filled with thought-provoking and frequently controversial ideas and arguments, this book provides readers with a contribution to the literature on medical ethics.

Over the years, there has been a shift in medical law and practise to distrust the judgement of health professionals. This book looks comparatively at a number of countries, showing through analysis of case law, legislation and protocols produced by hospitals, how the shift from trust to lack of trust has happened.

Autonomy is said to be the predominant ethical principle in modern bioethics, and is enshrined in the law. This book argues that the debate in bioethics about the true nature of autonomy while rich, has had little if any impact on the law's development in this area, save arguably in limited circumstances.

Addresses a number of key questions including: Should it be legal to sell human organs for transplantation? Are public displays of plastinated bodies or public autopsies morally justifiable? And, should there be restrictions on the uses of human tissue in teaching and research?

Illustrating some humanistic ways of understanding patients, this volume explores the connections between medical ethics, healthcare and subjects, such as philosophy and literature, creative writing and medical history and how they can affect the attitudes of doctors towards patients and the perceptions of medicine, health and disease.

Explores the controversial topic of the technology of Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis and the muddled approach to this subject adopted by the UK Parliament. This book is a useful resource for law students of various levels and professionals working within or interested in medical and healthcare law and medical genetics.

Offering a theoretical engagement with actions for wrongful conception and birth, this book provides readers with a critique into the concepts of choice, responsibility and personhood. It challenges the law's response that enforced parenthood is a harmless outcome and examines the concept of autonomy, gender and women's reproductive freedom.

There is evidence that medical mistakes and mishaps occur in significant numbers every year. This book examines the uncertainty and some of the myths surrounding errors and claims in healthcare, and places the arguments surrounding the so-called compensation culture on a stronger statistical, and hence epistemological basis.

Argues that the law governing the ending of life in England and Wales is unclear, confused and contradictory. This book shows that the rules are in competition because the ethical principles underlying them are so diverse and conflicting. It covers topics including Diane Pretty litigation and Lord Joffe's Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Bill.

Analyzing the criminal concepts of intention and causation in euthanasia, this book explores a range of disciplines and offers an alternative legal framework based on grading different categories of killing into a formalized justificatory defence.

Explores a number of issues relating to reproduction. Critically analyzing medical ethics and the law in a variety of jurisdictions, this book makes suggestions on reforming the law in the UK. It looks at the relationship between the law and medical ethics in a number of jurisdictions, including Germany, US, France, and the Republic of Ireland.