The legitimacy of medical law / Jonathan Montgomery -- Cases and casuistry / Robin Downie -- Medical ethics : Hippocratic and democratic ideals / Kenneth Boyd -- Contemporary challenges in the regulation of health practitioners / Ian Freckleton -- The international health regulations : a new paradigm for global health governance? / Lawrence O. Gostin -- International medical research regulation : from ethics to law / Don Chalmers -- Ethical and policy issues related to medical error and patient safety / Gerard Magill -- Autonomy and its limits : what place for the public good? / Veronica English, Rebecca Mussell, Julian Sheather, and Ann Somerville -- The autonomy of others : reflections on the rise and rise of patient choice in contemporary medical law / Graeme Laurie -- Conceptualising privacy in relation to medical research values / Deryck Beylefeld -- Human 'guinea pigs' : why patients participate in clinical trials / Pamela R. Ferguson -- Human(s) (as) medicine(s) / Margot Brazier -- The ethical challenges of biobanks : safeguarding altruism and trust / Alastair V. Campbell -- Law reform, clinical research, and adults without mental capacity : much needed clarification or a recipe for further uncertainty? / Jean McHale -- Continuing conundrums in competency / John Devereux -- Chester v. Afshar : sayonara, sub silentio, sidaway? / David Meyers -- 'Informed consent' to medical treatment and the impotence of tort / Emily Jackson -- Mark Anthony or Macbeth : some problems concerning the dead and the incompetent when it comes to consent / John Harris -- No more 'shock, horror'? : the declining significance of 'sudden shock' and the 'horrifying event' in psychiatric injury claims / Harvey Teff -- Is there a right not to procreate? / Elaine E. Sutherland -- Conscientious objection : a shield or a sword? / Bernard M. Dickens -- Classifying abortion as a health matter : the case for de-criminalising abortion laws in Australia / Kerry Petersen -- What's love got to do with it? : regulating reproductive technologies and second hand emotions / Penelope Beem and Derek Morgan -- Saviour siblings / Michael Freeman -- Wrongful life, the welfare principle and the non-identity problem : some further complications / Soren Holm -- Life-prolonging treatment and patients' legal rights / Loane Skene -- From Bland to Burke : the law and politics of assisted nutrition and hydration / Sheila A.M. McLean -- Euthanasia as a human right / Tom Campbell -- The futility of opposing the legalisation of non-voluntary and voluntary euthanasia / Len Doyal -- Defending the Council of Europe's opposition to euthanasia / John Keown -- Newborn screening for sickle cell disease : socio-ethical implications / Denise Avard, Linda Kharaboyan and Bartha Knoppers -- The 'do no harm' principle and the genetic revolution in New Zealand / Mark Henaghan -- Cloning, zoning and the harm principle / Roger Brownsword -- Exposing harm : the erasure of animal bodies in health care law / Marie Fox -- Is the Gender Recognition Act 2004 as important as it seems? / Kenneth McK. Norrie -- The positive side of health care rights / Christopher Newdick -- In defence of doctors / Vivienne Harpwood.