Considers seven areas of medicine, ethics, and the law wherethere have been major,
topical and controversialdevelopments. Includes articles: Sterilising the …

This volume in the King's College (London) Studies in Medical Law and Ethics series covers
a wide range of issues (euthanasia, abortion, embryo research and fetal transplantation, the …

Questions concerning the role of doctors, abortion, mercy killings and genetics are troubling
and highly problematic. They require a thorough examination and careful probing. This …

In this book, controversial topics such as the morality of abortion, withdrawing treatment from
handicapped newborns, the role of ethics committees, diagnosing death, withdrawing food …

Not all that long ago, the law played only a minor role in the dramas enacted when medicine
and morals collided. Today all is changed; law takes a starring role. Judges find themselves" …

Issues like abortion, AIDS, test-tube babies, conscience, euthanasia, etc, are increasingly
becoming issues of public debate, and lay person and professional alike are expected to …

This is the first in an annual series of volumes of medical law and ethics based on lectures
given at the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College, London. The contributors …

If the unborn are human persons, the principles of justice and non‐maleficence (rightly
understood) prohibit every abortion; that is, every procedure or technical process carried out …

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 represents a milestone in biomedical
regulation. Not only does it finally bring to fruition the long running government discussions …

This paper argues that the central issue in the abortion debate has not changed since 1967
when the English parliament enacted the Abortion Act. That central issue concerns the moral …