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Law and Healing: A history of a stormy marriage

Law and Healing: A history of a stormy marriage

Name: Law and Healing: A history of a stormy marriage
Brand: Manchester University Press
SKU: 9781526195876
Price: 332.50 HKD
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Author: Margaret Beazier
ISBN: 9781526195876

By Margaret Beazier

Manchester University Press January 2026

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

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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