Law and Healing: A history of a stormy marriage

Medical Law

Law and Healing: A history of a stormy marriage

By Margaret Beazier
Manchester University Press January 2026

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781526195876
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Publication
January 2026
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Also available as

Hardback

Details

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

Table of Contents

Preface

1.
Medico-legal history: why bother?
2.
Medical brethren
3.
'Unruly brethren': regulation and reputation
4.
The bumpy road to the General Medical Council
5.
Medical litigation
6.
Human life, common law and Christianity
7.
Your living body: 'temple of the soul'
8.
Reproductive bodies: mothers, midwives and morals
9.
The not (yet) born child
10.
Honouring the dead: commodifying the corpse
Postscript

Index
HKD 332.50

Inclusive of HK delivery

Ready to ship
Delivery Time: around 4-5 weeks
Extra 10 working days if shipping address outside Hong Kong
  • Free HK shipping over HK$1,000
  • International shipping to 35+ countries
Order Form
Save

Recommended

You may also be interested in these books:

More titles from Medical Law

View all
Crisis Patient Prioritisation and the Law: The Pandemic Experience
Kluwer Law International

Crisis Patient Prioritisation and the Law: The Pandemic Experience

Tomáš Holcapek; Massimo Foglia; Martin Šolc; Petr Šustek
HKD 1,014.48
Medicinal Product Liability and Regulation
Hart Publishing

Medicinal Product Liability and Regulation

Richard Goldberg
HKD 1,639.30
European Health and Pharmaceutical Law Review: Online Only
Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Subscriptions

European Health and Pharmaceutical Law Review: Online Only

Forensic Assessments in Criminal and Civil Law
Oxford University Press USA

Forensic Assessments in Criminal and Civil Law

Ronald Roesch; Patricia A. Zapf
HKD 1,733.88
The Law and Ethics of Medicine
Oxford University Press

The Law and Ethics of Medicine

John Keown
HKD 1,670.83
Health Law as Private Law: Pathology or Pathway
Cambridge University Press

Health Law as Private Law: Pathology or Pathway

I. Glenn Cohen; Susannah Baruch; Wendy Netter Epstein; Christopher Robertson; Carmel Shachar
HKD 503.43