Towards a Rhetoric of Medical Law

John Harrington (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-85405-5 (ISBN)

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Challenging the dominant account of medical law as normatively and conceptually subordinate to medical or bioethics, this book provides an innovative account of medical law as a rhetorical practice. The aspiration to provide a firm grounding for medical law in ethical principle has not yet been realized. Rather, legal doctrine is marked, if anything, by increasingly evident contradiction and indeterminacy that are symptomatic of the inherently contingent nature of legal argumentation. Against the idea of a timeless, placeless ethics as the master discipline for medical law, this book demonstrates how judicial and academic reasoning seek to manage this contingency, through the deployment of rhetorical strategies, persuasive to concrete audiences within specific historical, cultural and political contexts. Informed by social and legal theory, cultural history and literary criticism, John Harrington’s careful reading of key judicial decisions, legislative proposals and academic interventions offers an original, and significant, understanding of medical law.

John Harrington is Professor of Global Health Law at Cardiff Law School, UK.

1. Rhetoric 2. Paradox 3. Space 4. Time 5. Utopia 6. Progress 7. Art 8. Ethics

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.9.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	530 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
ISBN-10	1-138-85405-0 / 1138854050
ISBN-13	978-1-138-85405-5 / 9781138854055
Zustand	Neuware