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.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'Tracing its roots and envisioning its future, this compelling work reimagines health law as a richly interdisciplinary domain, providing valuable new insights for scholars and health professionals.' -- Emma Cave, Durham Law School, Durham University, UK
Reihe
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Maße
Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-83910-498-5 (9781839104985)
Copyright in bibliographic data is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or its licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Edited by Atina Krajewska, Professor of Law, University of Birmingham and Jean V. McHale, Professor of Health Law, Director of the Centre for Health Law, Science and Policy, University of Birmingham, UK
Contents
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-Andree Jacob 307
12 Analysing the relationship between health law and science
through the lense of science and technology studies
Sandra P. Gonzalez-Santos and Rebecca Dimond 335
13 Health law: new field, new frame, new focus
Roger Brownsword 355
