Pioneering Healthcare Law ─ Essays in Honour of Margaret Brazier

This book explores and assesses new directions of research emerging within healthcare law, and is compiled to celebrate Professor Margaret Brazier’s outstanding contribution to the development of medical law and bioethics. The contributions in this volume examine key aspects developed in Professor Brazier’s own agenda-setting body of work, and is organised into five parts. Part One discusses the principles and theoretical development of healthcare law. Part Two examines the dynamics of the doctor-patient relationship, in particular the role of patients. Part Three explores law and ethics relating to human tissue. Part Four discusses the regulation of Reproduction, and Part Five examines criminal law and the healthcare process.

Contributions are provided by leading healthcare law and bioethics experts in the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States and continental Europe. As a collaborative review of key and innovative themes in the field, the book will be of great interest and use to academics and students working in healthcare law and bioethics, and those working in health policy, law and regulation at both national and international levels.

Catherine Stanton is Lecturer in Law in the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy in the School of Law at the University of Manchester. Catherine’s research interest lies in healthcare law and policy. She (with Hannah Quirk and David Gurnham) is a partner in an ESRC-funded seminar-series which is considering issues surrounding the criminalisation of the transmission of disease. An output of the project is a forthcoming edited collection which Catherine is co-editing with Hannah Quirk:Criminalising Contagion: Legal and Ethical Challenges of Disease Transmission and the Law(Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Sarah Devaney is Senior Lecturer in Law in the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy and co-Director of the Manchester Centre for Regulation & Governance (ManReg) in the School of Law, University of Manchester. She has been an investigator on a number of funded projects examining the human body, the dynamics of clinical negligence claiming, the regulation of reputations and the challenges of the food system. She has particular expertise in the regulation of stem cell research and innovation. Recent publications include Stem Cell Research and the Collaborative Regulation of Innovation (Routledge, 2014).

Anne-Maree Farrell is Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Monash University, Australia. She was previously based in the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, University of Manchester (2005-2011). Her research expertise lies generally in health law and policy, with specific interests in the law and regulation of human body parts (blood, organs and stem cells), health technologies, and public health. She has published widely in a range of internationally recognised journals and edited collections. Her books include European Law and New Health Technologies (OUP 2013), co-edited with M Flear, T Hervey and T Murphy; The Politics of Blood: Ethics Innovation and the Regulation of Risk (CUP 2012); and Organ Shortage: Ethics Law and Pragmatism (CUP 2011), co-edited with D Price and M. Quigley.

Alexandra Mullock is Lecturer in Law in the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy in the School of Law, University of Manchester. She joined the School of Law in 2011 after completing her PhD at Manchester. Alex’s research interests focus mainly on End-of-Life Law, the legitimacy of ethically contentious medical interventions and the regulation of health care professionals. She has published articles in internationally recognised journals and she has an forthcoming edited book to be published with Routledge,The Legitimacy of Medical Treatment: What Role for the Medical Exception?, with co-editor Sara Fovargue.