First Do No Harm: Law, Ethics, And Healthcare (Applied Legal Philosophy)

Contents......Page 6
List of Contributors......Page 10
Preface......Page 14
Ken Mason – An Appreciation......Page 16
1. The Legitimacy of Medical Law......Page 18
2. Cases and Casuistry......Page 34
3. Medical Ethics: Hippocratic and Democratic Ideals......Page 46
4. Contemporary Challenges in the Regulation of Health Practitioners......Page 56
5. The International Health Regulations: A New Paradigm for Global Health Governance?......Page 76
6. International Medical Research Regulation: From Ethics to Law......Page 98
7. Ethical and Policy Issues Related to Medical Error and Patient Safety......Page 118
8. Autonomy and Its Limits: What Place for the Public Good?......Page 134
9. The Autonomy of Others: Reflections on the Rise and Rise of Patient Choice in Contemporary Medical Law......Page 148
10. Conceptualising Privacy in Relation to Medical Research Values......Page 168
11. Human ‘Guinea Pigs’: Why Patients Participate in Clinical Trials......Page 182
12. Human(s) (as) Medicine(s)......Page 204
13. The Ethical Challenges of Biobanks: Safeguarding Altruism and Trust......Page 220
14. Law Reform, Clinical Research and Adults without Mental Capacity – Much Needed Clarification or a Recipe for Further Uncertainty?......Page 232
15. Continuing Conundrums in Competency......Page 252
16. Chester v. Afshar: Sayonara, Sub Silentio, Sidaway?......Page 272
17. ‘Informed Consent’ to Medical Treatment and the Impotence of Tort......Page 290
18. Mark Anthony or Macbeth: Some Problems Concerning the Dead and the Incompetent when it Comes to Consent......Page 304
19. No More ‘Shock, Horror’? The Declining Significance of ‘Sudden Shock’ and the ‘Horrifying Event’ in Psychiatric Injury Claims......Page 320
20. Is There a Right Not to Procreate?......Page 336
21. Conscientious Objection: A Shield or a Sword?......Page 354
22. Classifying Abortion as a Health Matter: The Case for De-criminalising Abortion Laws in Australia......Page 370
23. What’s Love Got to Do With It? Regulating Reproductive Technologies and Second Hand Emotions......Page 386
24. Saviour Siblings......Page 406
25. Wrongful Life, the Welfare Principle and the Non-Identity Problem: Some Further Complications......Page 424
26. Life-Prolonging Treatment and Patients’ Legal Rights......Page 438
27. From Bland to Burke: The Law and Politics of Assisted Nutrition and Hydration......Page 448
28. Euthanasia as a Human Right......Page 464
29. The Futility of Opposing the Legalisation of Non-Voluntary and Voluntary Euthanasia......Page 478
30. Defending the Council of Europe’s Opposition to Euthanasia......Page 496
31. Newborn Screening for Sickle Cell Disease: Socio-Ethical Implications......Page 512
32. The ‘Do No Harm’ Principle and the Genetic Revolution in New Zealand......Page 528
33. Cloning, Zoning and the Harm Principle......Page 544
34. Exposing Harm: The Erasure of Animal Bodies in Healthcare Law......Page 560
35. Is the Gender Recognition Act 2004 as Important as It Seems?......Page 578
36. The Positive Side of Healthcare Rights......Page 590
37. In Defence of Doctors......Page 604