Law at the Frontiers of Biomedicine: Creating, Enhancing and Extending Human Life

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Professor Shaun D Pattinson

Law at the Frontiers of Biomedicine

Creating, Enhancing and Extending Human Life

Professor Shaun D Pattinson

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Hart Publishing
26 January 2023

Jurisprudence & philosophy of law; Medical & healthcare law

How should judges and legislators address challenges arising at the frontiers of biomedicine? What if it became possible to edit the DNA of embryos for enhanced traits, gestate a fetus in an artificial womb, self-modify brain implants to provide new skills or bring a frozen human back to life?

This book presents an innovative legal theory and applies it to future developments in biomedicine. This legal theory reconceptualises the role of legal officials in terms of moral principle and contextual constraints: ‘contextual legal idealism’. It is applied by asking how a political leader or appeal court judge could address technological developments for which the current law of England and Wales would be ill-equipped to respond.

The book’s central thesis is that the regulation of human conduct requires moral reasoning directed to the context in which it operates. The link between abstract theory and practical application is articulated using future developments within four areas of biomedicine. Developments in heritable genome editing and cybernetic biohacking are addressed using Explanatory Notes to hypothetical UK Parliamentary Bills. Developments in ectogestation and cryonic reanimation are addressed using hypothetical appeal court judgments.

The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of medical/health law, criminal law, bioethics, biolaw, legal theory and moral philosophy.

By: Professor Shaun D Pattinson
Imprint: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781509941070
ISBN 10: 150994107X
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 26 January 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Shaun D Pattinson is Professor of Medical Law and Ethics at Durham University, UK.

Reviews for Law at the Frontiers of Biomedicine: Creating, Enhancing and Extending Human Life

I would advise all biomedical lawyers to put this book at the top of their reading list. -- Roger Brownsword, King’s College London, UK * Medical Law International * An innovative, well researched and challenging analysis of novel issues in bioethics. It is interestingly constructed and engagingly written. It can be recommended to readers of the Journal as a thought-provoking and worthwhile call to analyse new technologies in new ways, while retaining the best of what law reform and judicial analysis have to offer to deal with the ethical challenges that lie ahead in ways that cannot easily be predicted (but will soon arrive) on the interface between law and medicine. -- Ian Freckelton AO KC, University of Melbourne * Journal of Law and Medicine *