Delivering proportionate governance in the era of eHealth: Making linkage and privacy work together [0.03%]
电子健康时代适度治理的实现：协调关联与隐私之间的关系
Nayha Sethi,Graeme T Laurie
Nayha Sethi
This article advances a principled proportionate governance model (PPGM) that overcomes key impediments to using health records for research. Despite increasing initiatives for maximising benefits of data linkage, significant challenges rem...
Sheila A M McLean,Alastair Campbell,Kerry Gutridge et al.
Sheila A M McLean et al.
The scandals surrounding organ removal and retention throughout the United Kingdom provoked several Inquiries and ultimately led to law reform. Although the medical professions were well represented at the Inquiries, little was heard of the...
Laura Williamson,Sheila McLean,Judith Connell
Laura Williamson
In the United Kingdom there is a growing conviction that CECs have an important role to play in helping health care professionals address ethical dilemmas. For example, the Royal College of Physicians, the Nuffield Trust and the unofficial ...
Donna Dickenson
Donna Dickenson
Giving the reasonable patient a voice: information disclosure and the relevance of empirical evidence [0.03%]
赋予理性患者话语权：信息告知与经验性证据的相关性
Alasdair Maclean
Alasdair Maclean
In England the standard of risk disclosure required of doctors to avoid liability in negligence is governed by the Bolam test. The test is determined by what would be accepted as reasonable by the responsible doctor. Although able to lay do...
Harmonizing the international regulation of embryonic stem cell research: possibilities, promises and potential pitfalls [0.03%]
国际胚胎干细胞研究法规协调：可能性、前景及潜在风险
Angela Campbell,Gillian Nycum
Angela Campbell
Despite near unanimous global opposition to human reproductive cloning, the United Nations has been unable to reach a consensus as to how cloning practices should be regulated at the international level. As a result, the U.N. objective of e...
Rob Heywood
Rob Heywood
This article examines the debate surrounding the challenging concept of informed consent. It argues whilst the English courts have effectively excluded the use of the tort of battery as an appropriate mechanism for protecting a patient's ri...
Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, tissue typing and beyond: the legal implications of the Hashmi case [0.03%]
移植前基因诊断、组织配型及其他：哈什米案的法律启示
Beverley Mulvenna
Beverley Mulvenna
The legality of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) has recently been confirmed by the Court of Appeal in the Hashmi case, based on a purposive construction of the statute. The court went on to declare tissue typing lawful and strained...
J K Mason
J K Mason
The paper considers the status of the wrongful life action particularly in the light of the recent acceptance of such actions in continental Europe. It is considered that the hurdle of causation is still not adequately overcome in these cas...