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

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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

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
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