Table of Contents

Volume 1:
1. Introduction – when criminal law encounters bioethics: a case of tensions and incompatibilities or an apt forum for resolving ethical conflict? Amel Alghrani, Rebecca Bennett and Suzanne Ost
Part I. Death, Dying, and the Criminal Law:
2. Euthanasia and assisted suicide should, when properly performed by a doctor in an appropriate case, be decriminalised John Griffiths
3. Five flawed arguments for decriminalising euthanasia John Keown
4. Euthanasia excused: between prohibition and permission Richard Huxtable
Part II. Freedom and Autonomy: When Consent Is Not Enough:
5. Body integrity identity disorder – a problem of perception? Robert Smith
6. Risky sex and 'manly diversions': the contours of consent in criminal law – transmission and rough horseplay cases David Gurnham
7. 'Consensual' sexual activity between doctors and patients: a matter for the criminal law? Suzanne Ost and Hazel Biggs
Part III. Criminalising Biomedical Science:
8. 'Scientists in the dock': regulating science Amel Alghrani and Sarah Chan
9. Bioethical conflict and developing biotechnologies: is protecting individual and public health from the risks of xenotransplantation a matter for the (criminal) law? Sara Fovargue
10. The criminal law and enhancement – none of the law's business? Nishat Hyder and John Harris
11. Dignity as a socially constructed value Stephen Smith
Part IV. Bioethics and Criminal Law in the Dock:
12. Can English law accommodate moral controversy in medicine? The case of abortion Margaret Brazier
13. The case for decriminalising abortion in Northern Ireland Marie Fox
14. The impact of the loss of deference towards the medical profession José Miola
15. Criminalising medical negligence David Archard
16. All to the good? Criminality, politics, and public health John Coggon
17. Moral controversy, human rights and the common law judge Brenda Hale. Volume 2:
1. The 'doctoring type'
2. 'The sleep of death':
150 years of anaesthesia-related mortality and the courts
3. Victims and prosecution policy
4. The road to the dock: prosecution decision-making in medical manslaughter cases
5. Medical manslaughter: the role of context and character
6. Doctors who kill and harm their patients: the Australian experience
7. Medical manslaughter: organisational liability
8. 'From prosecution to rehabilitation': New Zealand's response to health professional negligence
9. The role of the criminal law in healthcare in France: examining the HIV blood contamination scandal
10. Pain relief, prescription drugs, and prosecution in the US
11. Exploring the tension between physician-assisted dying and palliative medicine
12. Psychiatric care and criminal prosecution
13. 'Involuntary automaticity' and medical manslaughter
14. Maternity services and the impact of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
15. Disease transmission and prosecution. Volume 3: Introduction
1. Courtrooms, 'physic' and drama
2. Crime, doctors and the body (politic)
3. From the 'theatre' to the dock
4. Protecting life before birth
5. Medical (and non-medical) ending of life
6. Which twin lives?
7. Drawing connections: morality, political liberalism, responsibility and interpretation
8. Parallels and disconnects: principlism in bioethics, principles of criminalisation and the rule of law
Conclusion.