Emma Cave
Emma Cave
Justification of a voluntary vaccination policy in England and Wales rests on tenuous foundations. Two arguments against voluntary vaccination are gaining ground. The first is that globalisation necessitates preparedness strategies for pand...
Rob Heywood,Alexandra Mullock
Rob Heywood
Terms such as sanctity and inviolability have failed to provide a legally coherent or ethically sound principle upon which to determine the scope of the intrinsic value of life against extrinsic, quality-of-life considerations in a medical ...
Law in everyday life and death: a socio-legal study of chronic disorders of consciousness [0.03%]
日常生活与生死之间：持续性意识障碍的法社会学研究
Simon Halliday,Celia Kitzinger,Jenny Kitzinger
Simon Halliday
This paper addresses, from a socio-legal perspective, the question of the significance of law for the treatment, care and the end-of-life decision making for patients with chronic disorders of consciousness. We use the phrase 'chronic disor...
To empower or to protect? Constructing the 'vulnerable adult' in English law and public policy [0.03%]
“赋权”还是“保护”？论英国法和公共政策中的“脆弱成年人”形象构建问题
Michael C Dunn,Isabel C H Clare,Anthony J Holland
Michael C Dunn
Recent judgments in England and Wales have confirmed and extended the High Court's inherent jurisdiction to make declarations about interventions into the lives of 'vulnerable', rather than simply 'mentally incapacitated' adults. We argue t...
Jo Bridgeman
Jo Bridgeman
This paper considers the written statements provided to the Bristol Inquiry by parents whose children underwent cardiac surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary between 1984 and 1995, seeking to learn from their experiences, opinions, feeling...
Joan Loughrey
Joan Loughrey
Following the Gillick case in 1986, it was recognised that mature minors were owed a duty of confidentiality in respect of their medical information. Subsequent cases confirmed that the duty was also owed to non-competent children, includin...
John Harris
John Harris
Organ retention has been with us for millennia. Walk into virtually any cathedral and many a church in Europe and you will find an array of retained organs or tissue, allegedly originally the property of assorted saints, or even of God, and...
Sabine Michalowski
Sabine Michalowski
Court decisions concerning the life and death of patients become more and more frequent in the context of medical practice. One of the most controversial decisions in this area in recent years has been the decision of the Court of Appeal in...
Jo Bridgeman
Jo Bridgeman
This paper considers the written statements provided to the Bristol Inquiry by parents whose children underwent cardiac surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary between 1984 and 1995, seeking learn from their experiences, opinions, feelings a...
Katherine O&#x;Donovan,Roy Gilbar
Katherine O&#x;Donovan
Patient autonomy is one of the central values in medical ethics. It is generally understood as recognition of patients' rights as free individuals answerable only to themselves. This emphasis on the individual leaves open the question of th...