European Law and New Health Technologies

Mark Flear is a Lecturer in Law at Queen's University of Belfast. He is also a member of the Northern Ireland DNA Database Governance Board. His works include the forthcoming title The Biopolitics of EU Public Health Governance: Cancer, HIV/AIDS and Pandemics.Anne-Maree Farrell is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Monash University, Australia. Her research expertise lies broadly within the area of health law and policy, with a particular interest in the regulatory governance of human biological materials. Recent publications include The Politics of Blood: Ethics Innovation and the Regulation of Risk (2012) and Organ Shortage: Ethics Law and Pragmatism (co-edited with D. Price and M. Quigley, 2011).Tamara Hervey is Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her research and teaching interests are in the field of European Union social and constitutional law, in particular its application in health fields, social security and welfare. She works across disciplines, and considers law in the context of broader modes of regulation. She is interested in socio-legal theory and method, and legal research methodologies in general, in particular as applied to the law of the European Union. Her recent books include Health Law and the European Union (with J McHale, 2004), Health Systems Governance in Europe: The role of EU law and policy (with E Mossialos, G Permanand, and R Baeten, 2010), andResearch Methodologies in EU and International Law (with R Cryer, B Sokhi-Bulley, and A Bohm, 2011).Thérèse Murphy is the Professor of Law and Critical Theory in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of ?Nottingham. Her work focuses on human rights law and practice, and her publications includeCivil Liberties Law: The Human Rights Act Era (2001), New Technologies and Human Rights (2009), and the forthcoming Health and Human Rights.

• PART I: SETTING THE SCENE; PART II: LEGAL APPROACHES TO EUROPEAN LAW AND NEW HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES; PART III: REGULATORY THEORY, REGULATORY INNOVATION, EUROPEAN LAW AND NEW HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES; PART IV: NEW TECHNIQUES FOR RESEARCHING EUROPEAN LAW AND NEW HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES; PART V: BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER

This book is novel in focusing on the European regulatory environment pertaining to NHTs...The aim [of the 1st part of the book] appears to be rather to broaden the reader's horizons so as to be able to see the wider picture. Chapter 2 for example does this brilliantly, providing a sound overview of the potential influences of EU law on NHTs... Present[s] a number of well-selected examples of contemporary problems with European regulation of NHTs. Such examples are thought-provoking and serve to highlight the need for constant regulatory vigilance and willingness to reform in this area...Even a reader with familiarity of some or many aspects of NHT regulation will find something new and instructive in the various topics that have been chosen. The central topic of this book extremely relevant given the upcoming revision of the data protection directive and the medical device directives proposed by the European Commission.