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Caring and the Law
'Caring and the Law' considers the law's response to caring. It explores how care is valued and recognised, how it is regulated and restricted and how the values of caring are …
Debating Autonomy
Who is best placed in medical decision-making, to decide: the patient or the doctor? In this important new volume in the Debating Law series, Imogen Goold argues that the law …
Landmark Cases in Medical Law
This new addition to Hart Publishing’s Landmark Cases series brings together leading figures in the field to discuss a selection of the most significant cases in medical law. These …
Parental Rights, Best Interests and Significant Harms
This timely collection brings together philosophical, legal and sociological perspectives on the crucial question of who should make decisions about the fate of a child suffering …
Persons, Parts and Property
The debate over whether human bodies and their parts should be governed by the laws of property has accelerated with the pace of technological change. Having long held that a …
Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Young Children
In the wake of the Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans cases, a wide-ranging international conversation was started regarding alternative thresholds for intervention and the different …
Birth Rites and Rights
This multi-disciplinary collection of essays from the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group is concerned with the varying circumstances, manner, timing and experiences of birth. It contains …
The Law and Ethics of Dementia
Dementia is a topic of enormous human, medical, economic, legal and ethical importance. Its importance grows as more of us live longer. The legal and ethical problems it raises are …
European Human Rights and Family Law
This book examines the potential impact of human rights in the way the law interacts with families. Traditionally family law has been dominated by consequentialist/utilitarian …
Landmark Cases in Family Law
There are a number of important (landmark) cases in the development of Family Law in England and Wales that deserve detailed examination and lend themselves particularly well to …
Responsible Parents and Parental Responsibility
This book examines the idea of 'parental responsibility' in English law and what is expected of a responsible parent. The scope of 'parental responsibility', a key concept in …
Women’s Birthing Bodies and the Law
This is the first book to unpack the legal and ethical issues surrounding unauthorised intimate examinations during labour. The book uses feminist, socio-legal and philosophical …