Philosophical Foundations of Medical Law

by Phillips, Andelka M.; Campos, Thana C. de; Herring, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780198796558
• ISBN10: 0198796552
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-01-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Andelka M. Phillips is Senior Lecturer at Te Piringa Faculty of Law, University of Waikato. While at Oxford she was the General Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal.

Thana C. de Campos is Assistant Professor at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. She is a research associate at the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights (Rome); the Von Hugel Institute (St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge); and at Las Casas Institute (Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford).

Jonathan Herring is the DM Wolfe-Clarendon Fellow in Law and the Vice-Dean and Professor of Law in the Law Faculty at Oxford University.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Jonathan Herring, Thana C. de Campos, and Andelka M. Phillips
Part A: General Theories
1. Virtue Ethics and Medical Law, Robert Gay
2. Feminism, Ethics of Care, and Medical Ethics, Jonathan Herring
3. The Natural Law Foundations of Medical Law, Robert P. George and Christopher O. Tollefsen
4. Consequentialism and the Law in Medicine, Julian Savalescu and Dominic Wilkinson
5. Justice and Responsibility: a Deontological Approach to Medical Law, Thana C. de Campos
6. Abortion, Feminism, and 'Traditional' Moral Philosophy, Kate Greasley
7. How the Philosophy Gets In, Jesse Wall
Part B: Applications of Theories
8. Virtue Theory and the Lawfulness of Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment or Care, David Albert Jones
9. Dignity in Medical Law, Charles Foster
10. The Beginning and Ending of Life: Medical Law and Ethical Incoherence, John Keown
11. Proportionality in Medical Law, Francisco J. Urbina
12. Priority Setting, Judicial Review, and Procedural Justice, Daniel Wang and Benedict Rumbold
13. Philosophy and Restrictions on Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Imogen Goold
14. Abortion on the Basis of a Risk of Disability: the Parents' Interests and Shared Interests, Heloise Robinson
15. Property in the Body and Medical Law, Donna Dickenson
16. Trafficking, Tourism and Trading: A Dark Convergence in Transplantation?, Trevor Stammers
17. Can a Reformed Surrogacy Law Reflect Pragmatism and Respect Ethics?, Kirsty Horsey
18. Ageing and Fertility: Legal and Ethical Perspectives, Pia Jolliffe and William Jolliffe
19. The Emergence of Family Care Agreements in an Ageing World, Pip Coore
20. The Problem of Mental Capacity in Self-Harming Egosyntonic Disorder, Camilla Kong
21. Medical Privacy and Big Data: a Further Reason in Favour of Public Universal Healthcare Coverage, Carissa Veliz
22. The Age of Personalized MedicineFrom Patients to Consumers: The Digital Environment, Clickwrap Contracts, and Implications for Autonomy, Andelka M. Phillips