Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law

Amel Alghrani is a Research Fellow at Manchester University. Rebecca Bennett is a Senior Lecturer in Bioethics at Manchester University. Suzanne Ost is a Professor of Law at Lancaster University.

• 1. Introduction – when criminal law encounters bioethics: a case of tensions and incompatibilities or an apt forum for resolving ethical conflict? Amel Alghrani, Rebecca Bennett and Suzanne Ost; Part I. Death, Dying, and the Criminal Law: 2. Euthanasia and assisted suicide should, when properly performed by a doctor in an appropriate case, be decriminalised John Griffiths; 3. Five flawed arguments for decriminalising euthanasia John Keown; 4. Euthanasia excused: between prohibition and permission Richard Huxtable; Part II. Freedom and Autonomy: When Consent Is Not Enough: 5. Body integrity identity disorder – a problem of perception? Robert Smith; 6. Risky sex and 'manly diversions': the contours of consent in criminal law – transmission and rough horseplay cases David Gurnham; 7. 'Consensual' sexual activity between doctors and patients: a matter for the criminal law? Suzanne Ost and Hazel Biggs; Part III. Criminalising Biomedical Science: 8. 'Scientists in the dock': regulating science Amel Alghrani and Sarah Chan; 9. Bioethical conflict and developing biotechnologies: is protecting individual and public health from the risks of xenotransplantation a matter for the (criminal) law? Sara Fovargue; 10. The criminal law and enhancement – none of the law's business? Nishat Hyder and John Harris; 11. Dignity as a socially constructed value Stephen Smith; Part IV. Bioethics and Criminal Law in the Dock: 12. Can English law accommodate moral controversy in medicine? The case of abortion Margaret Brazier; 13. The case for decriminalising abortion in Northern Ireland Marie Fox; 14. The impact of the loss of deference towards the medical profession José Miola; 15. Criminalising medical negligence David Archard; 16. All to the good? Criminality, politics, and public health John Coggon; 17. Moral controversy, human rights and the common law judge Brenda Hale.

'… this book is a major success. It is original, thought provoking, and covers a wide range of contemporary issues which everyone interested in bioethics, medicine, and the law will take pleasure in reading. While this book is aimed largely at an academic audience, it will definitely garner interest from practitioners, both medical and legal, scientists and students on undergraduate and postgraduate courses across the country.' Rob Heywood, Medical Law Review