Leading Works in Health Law and Ethics

Sara Fovargue is Professor of Law in the School of Law at the University of Sheffield, England. Craig Purshouse is a senior lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool, England.

Notes on contributors x Acknowledgements xii 1 Introduction 1 SARA FOVARGUE AND CRAIG PURSHOUSE 2 Altruism, markets, and the importance of the social contract in healthcare: Richard Titmuss’s The Gift Relationship 9 ANNE-MAREE FARRELL 3 Principled effects: The importance of Beauchamp and Childress’s Principles of Biomedical Ethics 25 STEPHEN W SMITH 4 The realisation of human rights in mental health law: Larry Gostin’s ‘The ideology of entitlement: The application of contemporary legal approaches to psychiatry’ 39 JUDY LAING 5 ‘Master of medical law’? Peter Skegg’s Law, Ethics, and Medicine and the denial of life-prolonging treatment 53 RICHARD HUXTABLE 6 The Warnock Report on Human Fertilisation and Embryology (1984) 70 EMMA CAVE 7 Identifying the disease but not the cure: Ian Kennedy’s ‘What is a medical decision?’ 87 JOSÉ MIOLA 8 Taking the long view: David Rothman’s Strangers at the Bedside: A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making 102 MARY DONNELLY AND BARRY LYONS 9 How to control disease transmission: Margaret Brazier and John Harris’s ‘Public health and private lives’ 119 CRAIG PURSHOUSE 10 The importance of listening to patients: Sarah Franklin’s Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception 134 EMILY JACKSON 11 Integrating feminisms’ perspectives into the legal curriculum: Feminist Perspectives on Health Care Law 148 SARA FOVARGUE 12 Emily Jackson, Regulating Reproduction: Law, Technology, and Autonomy 164 JO BRIDGEMAN 13 Disclosing genetic information within families and beyond: Graeme Laurie’s Genetic Privacy: A Challenge to Medico-Legal Norms 180 ROY GILBAR 14 Setting a research agenda for mental capacity law: Mary Donnelly’s Healthcare Decision-Making and the Law 196 JAIME LINDSEY 15 Thinking carefully about organ donation: Janet Radcliffe-Richards’s The Ethics of Transplants: Why Careless Thought Costs Lives 211 BONNIE VENTER 16 Cohering the normative and the empirical: Jonathan Ives’s ‘A method of reflexive balancing in a pragmatic, interdisciplinary and reflexive bioethics’ 227 LOUISE AUSTIN 17 Learning lessons about how to learn from mistakes: Errors, Medicine and the Law 240 SARAH DEVANEY 18 Reflections on these leading works 255 BERNADETTE RICHARDS Index