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Courting Controversy? Recent Developments in Health Care Law
21 July 2016
Chancellors Hotel, Chancellors Way, Moseley Road, Fallowfield, Manchester M14 6NN
This afternoon seminar examines some controversial recent developments in health care law and introduces two new books on law and medicine:
- Margaret Brazier and Emma Cave Medicine, Patients and the Law (6th Edn) (Manchester UP, 2016)
- Catherine Stanton and Hannah Quirk (eds), Criminalising Contagion: Legal and Ethical Challenges of Disease Transmission and the Criminal Law (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Participants will have the opportunity to discuss developments in the law and meet the authors and researchers from the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy (CSEP) informally.
Programme
13:30 – 14:00 Registration
14:00 – 14:30 Overview of recent developments (Margot Brazier and Emma Cave)
14:30 – 15:00 Protecting Vulnerable Patients (Emma Cave)
15:00 – 15:30 Criminalising Disease Transmission: Demands, Difficulties and Dangers (Hannah Quirk)
15:30 Tea
16:00 – 16:30 Patient Autonomy: Clinical Compulsion? An Analysis of Montgomery and Doogan – Margot Brazier
16:30 – 17:00 Law Commission Recommendations on Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards – Neil Allen
17:00 Open Discussion
17:30 Reception
This event is free and offered by the CSEP and the School of Law, University of Manchester. Registration, however, is required. Please reserve your place here. For more information, email maureen.barlow[at]manchester.ac.uk