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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: 9781526129185
Price: 1130.50 HKD
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Author: Margaret Brazier
ISBN: 9781526129185

By Margaret Brazier

Manchester University Press February 2023

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ISBN-13: 9781526129185
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication: February 2023
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Exploring key aspects in the history of law's engagement with healthcare in England, Law and healing unearths fascinating stories of the fractious relationship between the two, highlighting lessons for medical law and bioethics through a focus on their history. The popular view that the courts and legislators have from time immemorial consistently deferred to medical practitioners is shown to be wrong. The book examines the regulation of healers, the doctor/patient relationship, and law's response to battles for dominance between different sorts of healers. Healthcare in a broader sense than simply medical treatment is addressed. Considering historical perceptions of the human body at all life stages from the womb to the grave, the work identifies themes running through the history of how law responds to the problems generated by understanding of bodies and how science changes popular perceptions and law.

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