An ill-suited and inappropriate union? : exploring the relationship between the criminal justice system and health care / Suzanne Ost, Charles A. Erin -- Criminalizing medical malpractice / Margaret Brazier, Neil Allen -- Medical manslaughter : the rise (and replacement) of a contested crime? / Oliver Quick -- Medical or managerial manslaughter? / Neil Allen -- When are errors a crime? -- lessons from New Zealand / Alan Forbes Merry -- Euthanasia and the defence of necessity : advocating a more appropriate legal response / Suzanne Ost -- Criminal law is the problem, not the solution / John Griffiths -- Lessons in legal and judicial ethics from Schiavo : the special responsibilities of lawyers and judges in cases involving persons with severe cognitive disabilities / Robert A. Destro -- Medical treatment at the end of life -- a British doctor's perspective / Michael Wilks -- Dignity : the difference between abortion and neonaticide for severe disability / Stephen W. Smith -- Terminating life and human rights : the fetus and the neonate / Elizabeth Wicks -- Non-treatment of severely disabled newborns and criminal liability under Spanish law / Sergio Romeo-Malanda -- Should we criminalize HIV transmission? / Rebecca Bennett -- The rightful domain of the criminal law / Charles A. Erin -- Medicalizing crime-criminalizing health? : the role of law / Jonathan Montgomery
Summary
This collection examines questions of medical accountability and ethics. It analyses how the criminal justice system regulates health care practice, and to what extent it is appropriate to use it as a tool to resolve ethical conflict in health care
