Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law

Danielle Griffiths is a research fellow at the University of Manchester. Andrew Sanders is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Birmingham.

• 1. The 'doctoring type'; 2. 'The sleep of death': 150 years of anaesthesia-related mortality and the courts; 3. Victims and prosecution policy; 4. The road to the dock: prosecution decision-making in medical manslaughter cases; 5. Medical manslaughter: the role of context and character; 6. Doctors who kill and harm their patients: the Australian experience; 7. Medical manslaughter: organisational liability; 8. 'From prosecution to rehabilitation': New Zealand's response to health professional negligence; 9. The role of the criminal law in healthcare in France: examining the HIV blood contamination scandal; 10. Pain relief, prescription drugs, and prosecution in the US; 11. Exploring the tension between physician-assisted dying and palliative medicine; 12. Psychiatric care and criminal prosecution; 13. 'Involuntary automaticity' and medical manslaughter; 14. Maternity services and the impact of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007; 15. Disease transmission and prosecution.

'This anthology is a must-read for policymakers, healthcare providers, academics, and anyone else interested in the thorny questions surrounding the intended and unintended effects of criminal punishment on the provision of medical care... one of the volume's many strengths is that it provides the reader with significant and valuable information to begin thinking critically about whether the involvement of the criminal justice system in the regulation of medicine is to be commended or condemned.' Song Richardson, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books (clcjbooks.rutgers.edu)