Medical Law Instant Bibliography
This list is recommended reading from one of the Law Teacher experts. Each book has been selected because it will help you to write medical law essays, dissertations and coursework.
Medical Law Books:
Ashworth. A & van Zyl Smit. D ‘Disproportionate Sentences as Human Rights Violations’ (2004) 67 MLR 541
Finnis. J. M ‘Bland: Crossing the Rubicon?’ (1993) 109 LQR 329
Glover. J ‘Causing Death & Saving Lives’ Penguin (1977)
‘Halsbury’s Laws of England’ Lexis Nexis, Butterworths (2007)
Horder. J ‘On the Irrelevance of Motive in Criminal Law’ in J. Horder (ed.), Oxford Essays in Jurisprudence, 4th series OUP (2000)
Humber. S ‘Patient Confidentiality – Breach of Confidence’ (2001) 4 JPIL 432
Kennedy. I & Grubb. A ‘Medical Law: Text & Materials’ 3rd edn, Butterworths (2000)
Knight. S ‘Baby Charlotte Wins Reprieve on her Second Birthday’ Times Online (21/10/05)
Lord Irvine of Lairg ‘The Patient, the Doctor, their Lawyers & the Judge: Rights & Duties’ (1999) 7 MLR 255
Mason. J. K & Laurie. G. T ‘Mason & McCall Smith: Law & Medical Ethics’ 7th Ed OUP (2005)
Mason. J. K & Laurie. G. T ‘The Management of the Persistent Vegetative State in the British Isles’ (1996) 4 JR 263
McGee. A ‘Double Effect in the Criminal Code (Qld)’ (2004) 4(1) QUTL & JJ 46
Mind ‘Legal Briefing: Fitness to Drive’ (2006) (http://www.mind.org.uk/Information/Legal/driving.htm)
Purdy. L. M ‘Genetics & Reproductive Risk: Can Having Children be Immoral?’ in H. Kuhse & P. Singer, (eds.), Bioethics: An Anthology (Blackwell 1997)
Wicks. E ‘The Right To Refuse Medical Treatment Under The European Convention On Human Rights’ (2001) 9 MLR 17
Williams. G ‘Textbook of Criminal Law’ 2nd Edition, Sweet & Maxwell (1983)
Wingfield. K, Ormond-Walshe. S & Ray. S ‘Risks in the Advancement of Medicine’ (2002) 152 NLJ 325
‘Withholding or Withdrawing Life Saving Treatment in Children: A Framework for Practice’ RCOP (1997 - later revised in May 2004)
