Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law
Medicine, Crime and Society
$307.93
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
31 January 2013
Summary
In recent years, debates have arisen concerning the encroachment of the criminal process in regulating fatal medical error, the implementation of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 and the recent release of the Director of Public Prosecution’s assisted suicide policy. Consequently, questions have been raised regarding the extent to which such intervention helps, or if it in fact hinders, the sustained development of medical practice. In this collection, Danielle Griffi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781107021532 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1107021537 |
| Author: | Danielle Griffiths, Andrew Sanders |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 31 January 2013 |
| Weight: | 640g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 155mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Cambridge Bioethics and Law |
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Critics Review
‘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)
About The Author
Danielle Griffiths
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.
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