The development of medical law in the UK has been shaped by landmark decisions on such issues as consent, child welfare, genetics, and assisted suicide. Drawing on legal developments in the UK, US, and other jurisdictions, this book revisits a selection of leading cases in medical law, and argues that while the judgments in each came to the correct conclusion, many issues were left unaddressed, and have led to avoidable confusion. Shaun Pattinson presents an idealised judgment for each case, written with the intention to provide insight into how the court could have supported its...
The development of medical law in the UK has been shaped by landmark decisions on such issues as consent, child welfare, genetics, and assisted sui...
What role does reason have to play in determining what, if anything, is morally right? What role does morality have to play in law? Perhaps the most controversial answer to these fundamental questions is that reason supports a supreme principle of both morality and legality. The contributors to this book cast a fresh critical eye over the coherence of modern approaches to ethical rationalism within law, and reflect on the intellectual history on which it builds. The contributors then take the debate beyond the traditional concerns of legal theory into areas such as the relationship between...
What role does reason have to play in determining what, if anything, is morally right? What role does morality have to play in law? Perhaps the most c...
