THE AGE OF RISK: RISK PERCEPTION AND DETERMINATION FOLLOWING THE MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007
in Medical Law Review
December 2011; published online October 2011.
Journal Article. Subjects: medical and healthcare law. 10159 words.
Reforms to the mental health law framework for England and Wales, which were introduced by the Mental Health Act 2007, are now having a practical effect on day-to-day mental health decision-making....
American Health Care Policy and Politics
in The Fragmentation of U.S. Health Care
February 2010; published online May 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: medical and healthcare law. 7794 words.
This chapter addresses the past four decades of American health care politics, asking whether the idea of fragmentation provides a central and helpful analytical perspective. Part I reviews the...
ANGELS OF MERCY? THE LEGAL AND PROFESSIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF WITHDRAWAL OF LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT BY NURSES IN ENGLAND AND WALES
in Medical Law Review
September 2012; published online March 2012.
Journal Article. Subjects: medical and healthcare law. 10575 words.
In circumstances where life-sustaining treatment appears merely to be drawing out the inevitable, it is usual practice for the healthcare team to withdraw aggressive life-sustaining measures, once...
Applying the Law of Negligence
in Childbirth and the Law
July 2000; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: medical and healthcare law. 19383 words.
Chapters 4 to 7 examined a variety of situations in which doctors and midwives are liable to damages claims arising from antenatal or perinatal negligence. In dealing with these claims, courts have...
The appointment of medical treatment attorneys: some lessons from Australia
in Medical Law Review
January 1998; published online January 1998.
Journal Article. Subjects: medical and healthcare law. 0 words.
THE APPROPRIATE EXTENT OF PRE-IMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS: HEALTH PROFESSIONALS' AND SCIENTISTS' VIEWS ON THE REQUIREMENT FOR A ‘SIGNIFICANT RISK OF A SERIOUS GENETIC CONDITION’
in Medical Law Review
January 2007; published online September 2007.
Journal Article. Subjects: medical and healthcare law. 16273 words.
Are the Courts Excessively Deferential to the Medical Profession?
in Medical Law Review
January 2001; published online January 2001.
Journal Article. Subjects: medical and healthcare law. 0 words.
Artificial Reproduction, the ‘Welfare Principle’, and the Common Good
in Medical Law Review
January 2005; published online January 2005.
Journal Article. Subjects: medical and healthcare law. 13072 words.
This article challenges the view most recently expounded by Emily Jackson that ‘decisional privacy’ ought to be respected in the realm of artificial reproduction (AR). On this view, it is...
AS IT IS AT THE END SO IT IS AT THE BEGINNING: LEGAL CHALLENGES AND NEW HORIZONS FOR MEDICALISED DEATH AND DYING
in Medical Law Review
January 2010; published online January 2010.
Journal Article. Subjects: medical and healthcare law. 2106 words.
The Assessment of Damages
in Childbirth and the Law
July 2000; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: medical and healthcare law. 11089 words.
The range of harms in respect of which damages may be sought from negligent doctors and midwives is vast. The negligence may cause harm to the mother; alternatively, or in addition, it may result in...