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PubMed1990

The role of law in reproductive medicine: a new approach.

It is a common feature of debates on the regulation of reproductive medicine to find law portrayed as a crude form of intervention consisting in the imposition of inflexible rules on doctors and medical researchers. This paper argues that this view must be replaced by a more accurate assessment of the law's potential role in the regulation of reproductive medicine. From an analysis of the White Paper on human fertilisation and embryology, and in particular the proposed Statutory Licensing Authority, the author contends that far from being an inflexible method of regulation law can foster discussion and compromise.

Contracts↗
PubMed2003

Effects of the civil procedure rules on clinical negligence claims.

The frequency with which clinicians can expect to face allegations of clinical negligence and court proceedings related to those allegations is likely to increase in coming years. The processes of investigation and defence have been modified by the introduction of the Civil Procedure Rules in 1999. This review outlines these developments and emphasises the need for speedy and comprehensive responses by doctors involved in such procedures.

Expert Testimony↗
PubMed1993

The law's response to reproductive genetic testing: questioning assumptions about choice, causation and control.

The law's response to reproductive genetic testing depends on a number of assumptions about choice, causation and control which need to be questioned. From the preconception stage forward, the illusion of choice may raise such fundamental questions as the woman's choice not to be tested, limits on genetic information, and the availability of reproductive options. In turn, assumptions about choice raise questions about the responsibility for results and the connection between choice and causation in the context of wrongful birth and life actions. Assumptions made about control over reproductive choice and over causing 'harm', will impact on the development of future law.

Abortion, Eugenic↗
PubMed1984

Cryobanking and A.I.H.

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Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and ↗
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Law and ethics.

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Ethics, Medical↗
PubMed2003

Does trauma trigger multiple sclerosis? 2: A medicolegal view.

Set against the scientific debate in multiple sclerosis are a number of medicolegal cases in which the scientific evidence has been examined in the context of specific events. It is instructive to understand something of the legal approach to cause and association, and to consider this in relation to individual cases.

Adult↗
PubMed2004

Abandon the dead donor rule or change the definition of death?

Research by Siminoff and colleagues reveals that many lay people in Ohio classify legally living persons in irreversible coma or persistent vegetative state (PVS) as dead that additional respondents, although classifying such patients as living, would be willing to procure organs from them. This paper analyzes possible implications of these findings for public policy. A majority would procure organs from those in irreversible coma or in PVS. Two strategies for legitimizing such procurement are suggested. One strategy would be to make exceptions to the dead donor rule permitting procurement from those in PVS or at least those who are in irreversible coma while continuing to classify them as living. Another strategy would be to further amend the definition of death to classify one or both groups as deceased, thus permitting procurement without violation of the dead donor rule. Permitting exceptions to the dead donor rule would require substantial changes in law--such as authorizing procuring surgeons to end the lives of patients by means of organ procurement--and would weaken societal prohibitions on killing. The paper suggests that it would be easier and less controversial to further amend the definition of death to classify those in irreversible coma and PVS as dead. Incorporation of a conscience clause to permit those whose religious or philosophical convictions support whole-brain or cardiac-based death pronouncement would avoid violating their beliefs while causing no more than minimal social problems. The paper questions whether those who would support an exception to the dead donor rule in these cases and those who would support a further amendment to the definition of death could reach agreement to adopt a public policy permitting organ procurement of those in irreversible coma or PVS when proper consent is obtained.

Brain Damage, Chronic↗