Reimagining Health Law: From Medical to Health and Social Care Law

Name: Reimagining Health Law: From Medical to Health and Social Care Law
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781839104985
Price: 1702.35 HKD
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Author: Jean McHale; Atina Krajewska
ISBN: 9781839104985

Edited by Jean McHale · Atina Krajewska

Edward Elgar Publishing December 2025

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781839104985
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: December 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This groundbreaking book explores the development of health law as a field of academic study in the UK. Drawing on the diverse expertise of leading scholars in the field, it examines health law’s disciplinary boundaries, research methods and relationships with other academic disciplines.

Mapping the discipline of health law, contributors identify the significant challenges that health law faces today and suggest how these can be overcome. Chapters provide an in-depth analysis of the co-constitutive relationship between the development of health law and other legal disciplines, such as tort, criminal, public, and family law, as well as areas of study spanning sociology, anthropology, and science. Authors examine the synergies framing health law and question common assumptions about its provenance and future trajectories, adding an epistemological dimension to these discussions.

Presenting new theoretical and methodological understandings, this book is a valuable resource for those working in health law itself and in related academic disciplines including medical sociology, medical history, anthropology and science and technology studies.

1.
Reflections on reimagining health law: Atina Krajewska and Jean V. McHale 1; PART I. MAPPING HEALTH LAW: FROM “PRIMARY” TO “SECONDARY” COLOURS; 2.
Health law and public law: overlapping or complementary scholarly fields?: Keith Syrett 52; 3.
What criminal law theory teaches us about the realm of health law: Isra Black and Lisa Forsberg 71; 4.
Health law’s family background: examining the relationship between health law and family law: Jo Bridgeman 97; 5.
Reimagining the relationship between health and social care law: Jean V. McHale 121; 6.
Of powers and safeguards: Lucy Series 146; 7.
Law and medicine: a history in three acts: Rebecca Wynter, Jonathan Reinarz and Gayle Davis 190; 8.
Legal method and health law in feminist perspective: Elizabeth Chloe Romanis 210; PART II THE BOUNDARIES AND BORDERS OF HEALTH LAW; 9.
Critical legal approaches and health law: David Benbow 240; 10.
From socio-legal studies of health to a sociology of health law: Atina Krajewska 279; 11.
Anthropology and health law: between separations and enlistments: Marie-Andrée Jacob 307; 12.
Analysing the relationship between health law and science through the lense of science and technology studies: Sandra P. González-Santos and Rebecca Dimond 335; 13.
Health law: new field, new frame, new focus: Roger Brownsword 355