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Pioneering Healthcare – Celebrating the Work of Margaret Brazier

Nov 19, 2015 | Bioethics, Blog, Healthcare Law and Ethics, Law

Alex Mullock and Catherine Stanton, co-editors of  the newly launched festschrift, reflect on the impact of Professor Brazier’s scholarship on healthcare law and practice. Very few academics come to be described as pioneers in their field but Professor Margaret...

Will, Preferences, and the Danger of Confusing Wants and Needs – Some Thoughts on the UNCRPD

Nov 15, 2015 | Bioethics, Blog, Healthcare Law and Ethics, Human Rights, International Law, Law

Paul Skowron reflects on one of the challenges presented by the UNCRPD.   ‘There is no necessary connection between what you can judge the plant “needs” and what you want’ -GEM Anscombe, ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’ (1958) 33 Philosophy 1, 6   Introduction This...

What is ‘proper medical treatment’?

Aug 20, 2015 | Bioethics, Criminology, Healthcare Law and Ethics, Human Rights, Law

Alex Mullock and Sara Fovargue  introduce the key themes from their new book on the ‘medical exception’ in law.  In The Legitimacy of Medical Treatment: What Role for the Medical Exception? (Routledge: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138819634/)...

To stigmatise or not to stigmatise – Should we publicly identify possible carriers of MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus)?

Jul 16, 2015 | Bioethics, Environment, Healthcare Law and Ethics, Regulation

Professor Søren Holm invites us to consider the ethical challenges facing the Danish public health authorities in tackling MRSA Stigmatising somebody is a bad thing to do. It marks them out as ‘other’ and links them to negative stereotypes and characteristics, and may...

Stress-testing Schedule 3: cross-border placements and the Court of Protection

Jun 24, 2015 | Bioethics, Healthcare Law and Ethics, Law

Alex Ruck Keene considers the ramifications of the recognition and enforcement of foreign protective measures for adults with impairments within the English legal system. In Re PA, PB and PC [2015] EWCOP 38, Baker J has conducted a detailed analysis...

What difference does it make? Do we really learn lessons from Safeguarding Adults Reviews?

Jun 11, 2015 | Bioethics, Healthcare Law and Ethics, Human Rights, Law

Kirsty Keywood reflects on the challenges  presented by Safeguarding Adults Reviews in light of the Care Act 2014 Introduction Those of us who are involved in the law relating to adult safeguarding are sadly aware of the all too frequent occurrence of deaths, neglect...
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