Margaret Brazier, Suzanne Ost

Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work maps the criminal process's impact on several key issues in medicine and its arbitration of bioethics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9781107018259
• ISBN-10: 1107018250
• Artikelnr.: 36955981

Autorenporträt

Margaret Brazier is a Professor of Law at the University of Manchester.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: beginning the story
1. Courtrooms, 'physic' and drama
2. Crime, doctors and the body (politic)
3. From the 'theatre' to the dock via the mortuary
4. Protecting life before birth
5. Medical (and non-medical) ending of life
6. Which twin lives?
7. Drawing connections: morality, (political) liberalism, responsibility and the theatre of interpretation
8. Parallels and disconnects: bioethical principles, principles of criminalisation and the rule of law
Concluding thoughts: a story part told?