The Law and Ethics of Medicine

John Keown DCL, holds the Rose Kennedy Chair in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, one of the world's premier centres of research into ethics. Having graduated in law from Cambridge he took a doctorate at Oxford and was then called to the Bar of England and Wales. Before being elected to the Rose Kennedy Chair he taught the law and ethics of medicine in the Faculty of Law at Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of Queens' College and of Churchill College. Professor Keown has written widely in the field of the law and ethics of medicine. His research has been cited by distinguished bodies worldwide, including the United States Supreme Court, the Law Lords, the House of Commons, the House of Lords Select Committee on Medical Ethics, and the Australian Senate, one of several bodies before which he has been invited to testify. He has served as a member of the ethics committee of the British Medical Association.

PART I: (MIS)UNDERSTANDING THE INVIOLABILITY OF LIFE ; 1. The 'Sanctity of Life', 'Best Interests', and 'Autonomy': An Overview ; 2. Surveying the Foundations of Medical Law: A Reassessment of Glanville Williams's The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law ; 3. Sir Ian Kennedy and the Value of Life: Building on Glanville Williams's Shaky Foundations? ; 4. Restoring the Inviolability of Life and Replacing the Caricature ; PART II: THE BEGINNING OF LIFE ; 5. Back to the Future of Abortion Law: Roe's Rejection of America's History and Legal Traditions ; 6. 'Morning After' Pills, 'Miscarriage', and Muddle ; 7. The Scope of the Offense of Child Destruction ; 8. The Human Embryo In Vitro: Person, Chattel or Dolphin? ; PART III: THE END(ING) OF LIFE ; 9. The Euthanasia Debate in the House of Lords ; 10. Towards Euthanasia in Europe? Marty, Pretty, and Purdy ; 11. Palliative Care: An Ethical and Legal Duty? ; 12. Restoring Moral and Intellectual Shape to the Law after Bland