Law and Medicine

Current Legal Issues Volume 3

Edited by Michael Freeman and Andrew Lewis

Current Legal Issues

620 pages | 234x156mm

978-0-19-829918-9 | Hardback | 10 August 2000

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Edited by Michael Freeman, Professor of English Law, University College London, and Andrew Lewis, Senior Lecturer in Law, University College London

Contributors:
Rebecca Bailey-Harris is Professor of Law at the University of Bristol. She is an editor of the Family Law Reports.; Peter Bartlett is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Nottingham and author of The Poor Law of Lunacy and (with D. Wright) the editor of Outside The Walls of the Asylum: The History of Care In The Community 1750-2000.; Belinda Bennett is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Law and Medicine, and is currently working on the impact of the new genetics on women.; Erwin Bernat is Professor of Law at the University of Graz in Austria.; Hazel Biggs is Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent.; Meredith Blake is Lecturer in Law at the City University, London.; Elizabeth Boetzkes is Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.; Cynthia Daniels is Associate Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies, Rutgers University, and a Research Associate at Princeton University. She is the author of At Women's Expense: State Power and the Politics of Fetal Rights, and is currently working on a book entitled Exposing Men: The Science and Politics of Male Reproduction.; Robert Dingwall is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Genetics and Society Unit at the University of Nottingham. He is one of the authors of Medical Negligence: Compensation and Accountability.; Rebecca Dresser is Professor of Law and Ethics in Medicine at Washington University - St Louis. She is writing a book about the public's role in determining and implementing biomedical research policies.; Howard Ducharme is Professor of Philosophy at Akron University, Ohio, U.S.A.; Abul Faal Mohsin Ebrahim is Professor in Islamic Studies at the University of Durban - Westville. He is the author of Abortion, Birth Control and Surrogate Parenting - An Islamic Perspective.; Michael Farrell is an Instructor at the Yale University School of Medicine. He was formerly Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Michigan.; Anne Flamm is Fellow in the Department of Clinical Ethics at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.; Heidi Forster is Fellow in the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. She was formerly a Visiting Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University.; Michael Freeman is Professor of English Law at University College London. He is Editor of Current Legal Problems, General Editor of the International Library of Medicine, Ethics and Law. He is writing a book on cultural pluralism and the rights of the child.; Janet Golden is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in History at Rutgers - Camden. She is currently working on a cultural history of foetal alcohol syndrome.; Vivienne Harpwood is a Reader in Law at Cardiff Law School and Director of the LL.M degree (Legal Aspects of Medical Practice). She was a member of the NHS Complaints Review Committee and currently serves on the Silicone Gel Breast Implant Review Group.; John Harris is Sir David Alliance Professor of Bioethics at the University of Manchester and Research Director at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, University of Manchester. He is the author of Wonderwoman and Superman. He is directing a project for the European Commission on Communicable Diseases and Lifestyle Choices.; Jonathan Herring is a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.; Diana Kloss is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Manchester.; Athena Liu is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Artificial Reproduction and Reproductive Rights and of Family Law for the Hong Kong SAR.; Robin MacKenzie is Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent.; Sheila McLean is the International Bar Association Professor of Law and Ethics in Medicine at the University of Glasgow and is the Director of the Institute of Law and Ethics in Medicine. She has acted as a consultant to the World Health Organisation and the Council of Europe.; B Mahendra is a Consultant Psychiatrist and a Barrister. He is the author of Depression: The Disorder and its Associations and Dementia: A Survey of the Syndrome, and a regular contributor to the New Law Journal.; Frances Miller is Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law; Professor of Public Health, Boston University School of Public Health; Professor of Health Care Management, Boston University School of Management. She is the Editor of the American Journal of Law and Medicine.; Debbie Mortimer is a member of the Victorian Bar, practising in public law. She was formerly a lecturer in the Monash University Law School.; Linda Mulcahy is Reader in Law at Birkbeck College London. She is the author of Mediating Medical Negligence Claims, and (with Judith Allsop) of Regulating Medical Work and (with Marilynn Rosenthal and Sally Lloyd-Bostock) of Medical Mishaps.; Christopher Newdick is Reader in Health Law at the University of Reading. He is the author of Who Shall We Treat?; Kenneth Norrie is Professor of Law at the University of Strathclyde.; Nicola Peart is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Otago, and formerly Chairperson of the Otago Ethics Committee.; Carl Schneider is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Law and Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Practice of Autonomy.; Francoise Shenfield is Clinical Lecturer - Infertility in the Reproductive Medicine Unit at University College London.; Bonnie Steinbock is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York, Albany. She is a Fellow of the Hastings Center, and a Past President. She is the author of Life Before Birth: The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses.; Harvey Teff is Professor of Law, University of Durham. He is the author of Reasonable Care: Legal Perspectives on the Doctor/Patient Relationship.; Anton Vedder is a senior Research Fellow and Research Co-ordinator at the Faculty of Law at Tilburg University. His research and publications are in moral epistemology, law and globalization, ethics and information and communication technologies, and bioethics.; Louis Waller, A.O. is Sir Louis Cussen Professor of Law at Monash University. He chaired the Committee to Consider the Social, Ethical and Legal Issues Arising from In Vitro Fertilization, which reported in 1984.

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