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

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

Author: Jean McHale; Atina Krajewska
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781839104985
Published In: December 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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.

Reflections on reimagining health law

Atina Krajewska and Jean V. McHale 1

PART I. MAPPING HEALTH LAW: FROM “PRIMARY” TO “SECONDARY” COLOURS

Health law and public law: overlapping or complementary scholarly fields?

Keith Syrett 52

What criminal law theory teaches us about the realm of health law

Isra Black and Lisa Forsberg 71

Health law’s family background: examining the relationship between health law and family law

Jo Bridgeman 97

Reimagining the relationship between health and social care law

Jean V. McHale 121

Of powers and safeguards