Ethical Judgments: Re-Writing Medical Law - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1849465797 ISBN 13: 9781849465793

Casa editrice: Hart Publishing, 2017

Riassunto

This edited collection is designed to explore the ethical nature of judicial decision-making, particularly relating to decisions in the health/medical sphere, where judges are often called upon to make decisions in cases containing an explicit ethical component. However, judges do not receive any specific training in ethical decision-making, and often disown any place for ethics in their decision-making. Consequently, decisions made by judges do not present consistent or robust ethical theory, even when cases appear to rely on moral claims. This project explores this dichotomy by imagining a world in which decisions by judges have to be ethically as well as legally valid. Nine specific cases are reinterpreted in light of that requirement by leading academics in the fields of medical law and bioethics. Two judgements are written in each case, allowing for different views to be presented. Two commentaries-one ethical and one legal-explore the ramifications of these ethical judgments and provide an opportunity to explore the two judgments from additional ethical and legal perspectives. These four different approaches to each judgment allow for a rich and varied critique of the decisions and ethical theories and issues at play in each case. [Subject: Medical Law &?Ethics, Criminal Law, Family Law, Gender &?the Law, Human Rights, Legal Education]

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L'autore:

Stephen Smith is a Lecturer at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham. John Coggon is Professor of Law and the Philosophy of Public Health at the University of Southampton. Clark Hobson is a Teaching Fellow at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham. Richard Huxtable is Professor of Medical Ethics & Law, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Ethics in Medicine at the University of Bristol. Sheelagh McGuinness is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol. José Miola is Professor of Medical Law at the University of Leicester. Mary Neal is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde.

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• Editore: Hart Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1849465797
• ISBN 13: 9781849465793
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 310
• Redattore: Smith Stephen W., Coggon John, Hobson Clark