Book contents
- Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law Volume 1
- Series page
- Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law Volume I
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: When criminal law encounters bioethics: a case of tensions and incompatibilities or an apt forum for resolving ethical conflict?
- Part I Death, dying and the criminal law
- Part II Freedom and autonomy: when consent is not enough
- Part III Criminalising biomedical science
- Part IV Bioethics and criminal law in the dock
- 12 Can English law accommodate moral controversy in medicine? Lessons from abortion
- 13 The case for decriminalising abortion in Northern Ireland
- 14 The impact of the loss of deference towards the medical profession
- 15 Criminalising medical negligence
- 16 All to the good? Criminality, politics, and public health
- 17 Moral controversy, human rights and the common law judge
- Index
15 - Criminalising medical negligence
from Part IV - Bioethics and criminal law in the dock
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law Volume 1
- Series page
- Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law Volume I
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: When criminal law encounters bioethics: a case of tensions and incompatibilities or an apt forum for resolving ethical conflict?
- Part I Death, dying and the criminal law
- Part II Freedom and autonomy: when consent is not enough
- Part III Criminalising biomedical science
- Part IV Bioethics and criminal law in the dock
- 12 Can English law accommodate moral controversy in medicine? Lessons from abortion
- 13 The case for decriminalising abortion in Northern Ireland
- 14 The impact of the loss of deference towards the medical profession
- 15 Criminalising medical negligence
- 16 All to the good? Criminality, politics, and public health
- 17 Moral controversy, human rights and the common law judge
- Index
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- Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal LawThe Criminal Law and Bioethical Conflict: Walking the Tightrope, pp. 236 - 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012