This book contributes to the nascent discourse on global health and biomedical research ethics involving Muslim populations and Islamic contexts. It presents a rich sociological account about the ways in which debates and questions involving Islam within the biomedical research context are negotiated - a perspective which is currently lacking.

This book examines the idea of a fundamental entitlement to health and healthcare from a human rights perspective. It will be an invaluable resource for students, academics and policy-makers working in the areas of health law and policy, and international human rights law.

This book encompasses two inter-related disciplines of health law and medical ethics applicable to Singapore.

This book encompasses two inter-related disciplines of health law and medical ethics applicable to Singapore.

Drawing on legal developments in the UK, US, and other jurisdictions, this book revisits a selection of leading cases in medical law, and argues that while the judgments in each came to the correct conclusion, many issues were left unaddressed, and have led to avoidable confusion.

Is the legal protection that is given to the expression of Abrahamic religious belief adequate or appropriate in the context of English medical law? This book develops a framework to support judges in the resolution of contentious cases that involve dissension between religious belief and medical law.

This collection brings together experts on healthcare ethics to discuss and reflect on the work of Professor Alastair V Campbell.

This volume explores the normative implications of the concept of the fetal patient against the background of the recent seminal developments in prenatal or fetal medicine from an interdisciplinary and international perspective.

This book explores patient safety themes in developed, developing and transitioning countries. It uses the concept of 'reverse innovation' as mutual learning from the chapters challenges traditional assumptions about what knowledge is produced where, and how it resides.

This book explores the legal and ethical dilemmas that arise from the procurement, storage and use of stem cells derived from the umbilical cord of new-born infants. Karen Devine traces the emergence of umbilical cord blood (UCB) as a biological resource of potential therapeutic value, and introduces the medical researchers, practitioners and pa