Anna Smajdor - Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethics and Law

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This book is dedicated to Dr Andrew Lawson.

Andrew was a consultant anaesthetist, an expert in pain management, and a man with a fascination for the ethical challenges of medicine. In 2007, he was diagnosed with mesothelioma. His experience as a patient gave him new and poignant insights into the workings of the health system, which he documented with characteristic frankness. In 2014, he died at the age of 55.

This book was Andrews idea. He wanted to create something that would be accessible; a handbook that would provide practical and effective tools for resolving conflicts while recognizing the complexities of medical law and ethics. He was ultimately deprived of the chance of seeing it completed. But without his energy and enthusiasm, it would never have come into existence.

Raanan Gillon, Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics Imperial College London, Past President British Medical Association, Honorary President Institute of Medical Ethics, Former Editor Journal of Medical Ethics

What an honour to be asked to write a foreword for such an interesting and useful handbook of medical ethics and lawstraightforwardly written and helpfully combining ethical and legal reasoning with advice and at least some legal obligations for clinicians practising under English lawanalysis and advice worth considering even by doctors practising elsewhere. This is not, it should be emphasized, a book for those seeking extensive and detailed philosophical or jurisprudential bioethical argument (though plenty of that is to be found in the sensible referencing). Instead the reader is introduced first to a clear and succinct account of the elements of philosophical medical ethics, combining accounts of virtue ethics, consequentialism, deontology, the four principles approach, care ethics, moral relativism and subjectivism and critical reasoning, showing how all these approaches have relevance in actual clinical practicebut especially the last one, critical reasoning: