Pattinson, Shaun D.,
Revisiting Landmark Cases in Medical Law / by Shaun D. Pattinson. - First edition. - 1 online resource (200 pages) - Biomedical Law and Ethics Library . - Biomedical Law and Ethics Library. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1: The rationale and method of revisiting medical law cases -- Chapter 2: Adams: life-shortening pain relief -- Chapter 3: Gillick: consent from a child -- Chapter 4: Bland: patients in a vegetative state -- Chapter 5: Re MB: refusal of treatment in late pregnancy -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: revisiting five further cases.
Is it lawful for a doctor to give a patient life-shortening pain relief? Can treatment be lawfully provided to a child under 16 on the basis of her consent alone? Is it lawful to remove food and water provided by tube to a patient in a vegetative state? Is a woman’s refusal of a caesarean section recommended for the benefit of the fetus legally decisive? These questions were central to the four focal cases revisited in this book. This book revisits nine landmark cases. For each, a new leading judgment is attributed to an imagined judge, Athena, who operates within the constraints of the legal system of England and Wales. Her judgments accord with an innovative legal theory, referred to as ‘modified law as integrity’, and are linked as a line of precedent. The result is a re-spinning of extant judicial threads into a web of legal principles with a greater claim to coherence and defensibility than those in the original cases.The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of medical law, criminal law, bioethics, legal theory and moral philosophy.
9781315750651
LAW / Ethics & Professional Responsibility.
PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Medical laws and legislation--England--Case studies.
Medical ethics--England--Case studies.
Medical ethics.
Medical laws and legislation.
Electronic books.
K3601 / .P388 2018
Revisiting Landmark Cases in Medical Law / by Shaun D. Pattinson. - First edition. - 1 online resource (200 pages) - Biomedical Law and Ethics Library . - Biomedical Law and Ethics Library. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1: The rationale and method of revisiting medical law cases -- Chapter 2: Adams: life-shortening pain relief -- Chapter 3: Gillick: consent from a child -- Chapter 4: Bland: patients in a vegetative state -- Chapter 5: Re MB: refusal of treatment in late pregnancy -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: revisiting five further cases.
Is it lawful for a doctor to give a patient life-shortening pain relief? Can treatment be lawfully provided to a child under 16 on the basis of her consent alone? Is it lawful to remove food and water provided by tube to a patient in a vegetative state? Is a woman’s refusal of a caesarean section recommended for the benefit of the fetus legally decisive? These questions were central to the four focal cases revisited in this book. This book revisits nine landmark cases. For each, a new leading judgment is attributed to an imagined judge, Athena, who operates within the constraints of the legal system of England and Wales. Her judgments accord with an innovative legal theory, referred to as ‘modified law as integrity’, and are linked as a line of precedent. The result is a re-spinning of extant judicial threads into a web of legal principles with a greater claim to coherence and defensibility than those in the original cases.The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of medical law, criminal law, bioethics, legal theory and moral philosophy.
9781315750651
LAW / Ethics & Professional Responsibility.
PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Medical laws and legislation--England--Case studies.
Medical ethics--England--Case studies.
Medical ethics.
Medical laws and legislation.
Electronic books.
K3601 / .P388 2018