Law and healing
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Law and healing

A history of a stormy marriage

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eBook - ePub

Law and healing

A history of a stormy marriage

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About This Book

This book delves into medico-legal history, travelling back in time to explore English law's fascinating and often acrimonious relationship with healing and healers.Challenging assumptions that medical law is a recent development, Law and healing traces the regulation of healers from the Church's dominance to legal battles fought among medical practitioners. As well as considering the history of the regulation of healers, this book addresses moral issues such as abortion, bodily sovereignty, and the use of cadavers in research. It highlights how fundamental legal and ethical questions continue to resurface, for example, from controversy in the Renaissance over human dissection to modern-day debates about organ donation. Law and healing provides a colourful but critical account of the longstanding – and often fraught – relationship between two fundamental pillars of human society.

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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9781526129208
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Medical Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Information
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Table of cases
  9. Table of statutes
  10. Preface
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. 1 Medico-legal history: why bother?
  13. 2 Medical brethren
  14. 3 ‘Unruly brethren’: regulation and reputation
  15. 4 The bumpy road to the General Medical Council
  16. 5 Medical litigation
  17. 6 Human life, common law and Christianity
  18. 7 Your living body: ‘temple of the soul’
  19. 8 Reproductive bodies: mothers, midwives and morals
  20. 9 The not (yet) born child
  21. 10 Honouring the dead: commodifying the corpse
  22. Postscript
  23. Index