Law and Bioethics Current Legal Issues Volume 11

by Freeman, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780199545520
• ISBN10: 0199545529
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems, is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London. Each year, leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought. Each colloquium examines how the external discipline is conceived in legal thought and argument, how the law is pictured in that discipline, and analyses points of controversy in the use, and abuse, of extra-legal arguments within legal theory and practice. Law and Bioethics, the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series, contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and bioethics. It includes studies examining the regulation of stem cell research, human rights and bioethics, the regulation of reproductive technologies, and distributive justice in healthcare and pandemic planning.

Author Biography

Michael Freeman is Professor of English Law at University College London, he is the series editor for Current Legal Issues.

Table of Contents

Law and bioethics : constructing the inter-discipline	p. 1
Bioethics : bridging from morality to law?	p. 12
The troubled relationship between bioethics and human rights	p. 31
Law and bioethics : a rights-based relationship and its troubling implications	p. 52
Health, global justice, and virtue bioethics	p. 79
Law, human rights, and the bioethical discourse	p. 101
Magic, myths, and fairy tales : consent and the relationship between law and ethics	p. 111
Stem cell promises - rhetoric and reality	p. 136
Motivating values and regulatory models for emerging technologies : stem cell research regulation in Argentina and the United Kingdom	p. 147
Cultures of life : embryo protection and the pluralist state	p. 177
Precautionary reasoning in determining moral worth	p. 197
Marketing masculinity : bioethics and sperm banking practices in the United States	p. 213
Bioethics and law in action - mining the gaps : the Human Genome Research Project	p. 225
Synthetic biology and (re)productive liberties : biosecurity, biosecrecy, and regulating new technologies with futures in mind	p. 238
Exploring the routes from consultation to (in)forming public policy	p. 257
The donation of eggs for research and the rise of neopaternalism	p. 286
Regulating the reproductive revolution : ectogenesis - a regulatory minefield?	p. 303
Surrogacy : is there room for a new liberty between the French prohibitive position and the English ambivalence?	p. 329
Children with severe disabilities and their families : re-examining private responsibilities and public obligations from a caring perspective	p. 358
Nanomedicine - small particles, big issues : a new regulatory dawn for health care law and bioethics?	p. 376
The place of carers	p. 390
Gender inequities in health research : an Australian perspective	p. 409
Pandemic planning and distributive justice in health care	p. 432
Humanitarian intervention and medical epidemics	p. 451
The age of deference - a historical anomaly	p. 464
Index	p. 477
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