Overview
- Considers the legal and ethical implications of specific medical advances made in recent years
- Provides forward-thinking analysis, which takes into account possible future medical and technological developments
- Describes the modern inclination toward arguing for body ownership and bodily autonomy, while providing an alternative viewpoint
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Jonathan Herring is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and DM Wolfe-Clarendon Fellow in Law, Exeter College, Oxford, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Emergent Medicine and the Law
Authors: P.-L. Chau, Jonathan Herring
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60208-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60207-9Published: 05 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60210-9Published: 05 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60208-6Published: 04 February 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 314
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medical Law, Sociology, general, Socio-legal Studies, Health Policy