Regulation that fails to guarantee the optimal protection of patients and scientific research in favour of other interests commits foreseeable and avoidable “regulatory violence”.  Meer

Using illustrative case studies, Julia Duffy shows how the assumption that autonomy is the basis of philosophical and legal personhood fails to accommodate the human rights and healthcare needs of adults with cognitive disability.  Meer

Investigating the problem of disability discrimination at the margins of life and death, Tony Bogdanoski draws on diverse materials, including international human rights law, UN monitoring reports, and chiefly US, UK and Canadian laws to explore how selective reproduction, assisted dying, and drug control impact struggles for disability equality.  Meer

This inter-disciplinary book critiques the extent to which the Mental Capacity Act can deal adequately with the impact of mental disorder on autonomous decision-making.  Meer

Using illustrative case studies, Julia Duffy shows how the assumption that autonomy is the basis of philosophical and legal personhood fails to accommodate the human rights and healthcare needs of adults with cognitive disability.  Meer

This book offers the first systematic account of dementia care and accommodation within the discipline of political philosophy, drawing attention to issues of power and social status.  Meer

This inter-disciplinary book critiques the extent to which the Mental Capacity Act can deal adequately with the impact of mental disorder on autonomous decision-making.  Meer

This book provides a comprehensive and approachable overview of Medicare under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The author illustrates how the ACA addresses the long-term fiscal and demographic challenges facing Medicare, as well as the potential for Medicare to become a single-payer system.  Meer

This book will benefit researchers and research institutions by explaining the regulatory environment for access to government held data for research.  Meer

This innovative book combines original, rare empirical data with theoretical and normative analysis about the Court of Protection. It furthers scholarship across several fields including access to justice, procedural justice, mental capacity and social welfare and family law.  Meer

As new technologies continue to revolutionise the future of human reproduction, they challenge our legal and ethical assumptions surrounding parenting, family formation, gender roles, obstetrics and neonatology.  Meer

Showing how the law and medical knowledge intersect, Steph Jowett examines the law governing consent to medical treatment for trans youth in Australia, England and Wales.  Meer

Regulation that fails to guarantee the optimal protection of patients and scientific research in favour of other interests commits foreseeable and avoidable “regulatory violence”.  Meer

In the UK, the intellectual basis of legal framework governing the creation, use and storage of in vitro embryos for reproduction and research has not been revisited for over thirty years.  Meer