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5217Designer babies: where should we draw the line?Journal of Medical Ethics 30 (6). 2004.Designer babies are often presented in the popular media as a kind of apocalyptical spectre of things to come in a brave new world where reproduction is the province of white coated scientists and potential parents in pursuit of trophy children. In this realm physical, intellectual, and social perfection is sought through the manipulation of genes and selection of favoured traits and attributes to the detriment of individuals who cannot compete and of society more generally through the loss of n…Read more
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I love you!) I do, I do, I do, I do, I do : breaches of sexual boundaries by patients in their relationships with healthcare professionalsIn Catherine Stanton, Sarah Devaney, Anne-Maree Farrell & Alexandra Mullock (eds.), Pioneering Healthcare Law: Essays in Honour of Margaret Brazier, Routledge. 2015.
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6Focusing on a matter of continuing contemporary significance, this book is the first work to offer an in-depth exploration of exploitation in the doctor-patient relationship. It provides a theoretical analysis of the concept of exploitation, setting out exploitation's essential elements within the authors' account of wrongful exploitation. It then presents a contextual analysis of exploitation in the doctor-patient relationship, considering the dynamics of this fiduciary relationship, the signif…Read more
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13Children and health-care research: best treatment, best interests and best practiceClinical Ethics 6 (1): 15-19. 2011.In order for children to receive the best possible medical treatment, it is essential that research is conducted to discover safe and effective interventions and dosages. This article focuses on the legal and ethical implications of recruiting into health-care research minors who are not competent to consent. It considers the role played by best interests in obtaining valid parental consent for the participation of children in research, both at common law and under the Regulations that govern cl…Read more
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32Competent minors and health-care research: autonomy does not rule, okay?Clinical Ethics 4 (4): 176-180. 2009.A dearth of clinical research involving children has resulted in off-licence and sometimes inappropriate medications being prescribed to the paediatric population. In this environment, recent years have seen the introduction of a raft of regulation aimed at increasing the involvement of children in clinical trials research and generating evidence-based medicinal preparations for their use. However, this regulation pays scant attention to the autonomy of competent minors. In particular, it makes …Read more
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29Healthcare research ethics and law: regulation, review and responsibilityRoutledge-Cavendish. 2010.The book explores and explains the relationship between law and ethics in the context of medically related research in order to provide a practical guide to understanding for members of research ethics committees (RECs), professionals involved with medical research and those with an academic interest in the subject.
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525Euthanasia, death with dignity, and the lawHart Publ.. 2001.Machine generated contents note: Table of Cases xi -- Table of legislation xv -- Introduction: Medicine Men, Outlaws and Voluntary Euthanasia 1 -- 1. To Kill or not to Kill; is that the Euthanasia Question? 9 -- Introduction-Why Euthanasia? 9 -- Dead or alive? 16 -- Euthanasia as Homicide 25 -- Euthanasia as Death with Dignity 29 -- 2. Euthanasia and Clinically assisted Death: from Caring to Killing? 35 -- Introduction 35 -- The Indefinite Continuation of Palliative Treatment 38 -- Withholding o…Read more
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55Madonna minus child. Or — wanted: Dead or alive! The right to have a dead partner’s childFeminist Legal Studies 5 (2): 225-234. 1997.
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4Book-Review: Morris, A. and Nott, S. (eds.), Well Women: The Gendered Nature of Health Care Provision. Ashgate, 2002, 182 pp., £47.50, ISBN: 1-84014-720-2(Hb) (review)Feminist Legal Studies 12 (2): 245-249. 2004.
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26Reproductive Autonomy and Regulation: Challenges to Feminism: Shelley Day Sclater, Fatemeh Ebtehaj, Emily Jackson and Martin Richards , Regulating Autonomy: Sex, Reproduction and Family. Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2009, xiv + 267 pp, price £35 , ISBN: 9781841139463 Naomi R. Cahn, Test Tube Families: Why the Fertility Market Needs Legal Regulation. New York University Press, New York, 2009, viii + 295 pp, price $US30 , ISBN: 9780814716823 (review)Feminist Legal Studies 18 (3): 299-308. 2010.
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18Gendered Readings of Obligations: Social Lore or Strict Legal Forms? (review)Feminist Legal Studies 8 (1): 1-4. 2000.
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20Book Review: S. Wilkinson, Bodies for Sale: Ethics and Exploitation in the Human Body Trade. Routledge, 2003, 264 pp., £17.99, ISBN 0-203-48072-4 (review)Feminist Legal Studies 13 (2): 263-264. 2005.
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33Legitimate Compassion or Compassionate Legitimation? Reflections on the Policy for Prosecutors in Respect of Cases of Encouraging or Assisting SuicideFeminist Legal Studies 19 (1): 83-91. 2011.This commentary explores the background to, and implications of, the recently published Director of Public Prosecutions guidelines for prosecutors in respect of cases of encouraging or assisting suicide. It considers the extent of the provisions and questions the legitimacy of their focus on the compassionate motivation of the assistant, and the apparent prohibition on healthcare professionals providing such help. It concludes by suggesting that a permissive change in the law would provide bette…Read more
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38A Pretty Fine Line: Life, Death, Autonomy and Letting it B (review)Feminist Legal Studies 11 (3): 291-301. 2003.The cases of Diane Pretty and Ms B. raise crucial issues about decision-making and autonomy at the end of life. Ms B. was permitted her wish to die rather than live permanently dependent upon a ventilator because her case was constructed as one about withholding consent to medical treatment, which every adult with capacity has a right to do. Mrs Pretty, however, sought active intervention to end her life. Requiring assistance to die, and claiming that this was her human right, she sought an assu…Read more
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36In whose best interests: who knows?Clinical Ethics 1 (2): 90-93. 2006.Leslie Burke challenged the GMC guidelines on withholding and withdrawing artificial nutrition and hydration because he wanted to ensure that food and fluids were not withdrawn from him at a time when he might still be cognisant. This article reviews the case and the judgments at first instance and in the Court of Appeal. In the interests of patient autonomy it argues that the patient is best placed to decide what is in her or his best interests and that the first instance decision was an approp…Read more