Revisiting Landmark Cases in Medical Law (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
Release date:	February 2020
Authors:	Shaun D. Pattinson
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	190
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-49876-4
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics Books > Medicine > General issues > Medicolegal issues Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > General
LSN:	0-367-49876-6
Barcode:	9780367498764

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