Philosophical Foundations of Medical Law

Andelka M. Phillips is Senior Lecturer at Te Piringa Faculty of Law, University of Waikato and a research associate atUniversity of Oxford's Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX). She was formerly the Ussher Assistant Professor in Information Technology Law at Trinity College Dublin.While at Oxford she was the General Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal and the convenor of the Medical Law and Ethics Discussion Group.Thana C. de Campos is Assistant Professor at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. She is a research associate at the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights (Rome); the Von Hügel Institute (St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge); and at Las Casas Institute (Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford).Jonathan Herring is the DM Wolfe-Clarendon Fellow in Law and the Vice-Dean and Professor of Law in the Law Faculty at Oxford University.

• Andelka M. Phillips, Thana C. de Campos, and Jonathan Herring: IntroductionPart A: General Theories1: Robert Gay: Virtue Ethics and Medical Law2: Jonathan Herring: Feminism, Ethics of Care, and Medical Ethics3: Robert P. George and Christopher O. Tollefsen: The Natural Law Foundations of Medical Law4: Julian Savalescu and Dominic Wilkinson: Consequentialism and the Law in Medicine5: Thana C. de Campos: Justice and Responsibility: a Deontological Approach to Medical Law6: Kate Greasley: Abortion, Feminism, and 'Traditional' Moral Philosophy7: Jesse Wall: How the Philosophy Gets InPart B: Applications of Theories8: David Albert Jones: Virtue Theory and the Lawfulness of Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment or Care9: Charles Foster: Dignity in Medical Law10: John Keown: The Beginning and Ending of Life: Medical Law and Ethical Incoherence11: Francisco J. Urbina: Proportionality in Medical Law12: Daniel Wang and Benedict Rumbold: Priority Setting, Judicial Review, and Procedural Justice13: Imogen Goold: Philosophy and Restrictions on Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies14: Heloise Robinson: Abortion on the Basis of a Risk of Disability: the Parents' Interests and Shared Interests15: Donna Dickenson: Property in the Body and Medical Law16: Trevor Stammers: Trafficking, Tourism and Trading: A Dark Convergence in Transplantation?17: Kirsty Horsey: Can a Reformed Surrogacy Law Reflect Pragmatism and Respect Ethics?18: Pia Jolliffe and William Jolliffe: Ageing and Fertility: Legal and Ethical Perspectives19: Pip Coore: The Emergence of Family Care Agreements in an Ageing World20: Camilla Kong: The Problem of Mental Capacity in Self-Harming Egosyntonic Disorder21: Carissa Véliz: Medical Privacy and Big Data: a Further Reason in Favour of Public Universal Healthcare Coverage22: Andelka M. Phillips: The Age of Personalized MedicineDLFrom Patients to Consumers: The Digital Environment, Clickwrap Contracts, and Implications for Autonomy