Series page

pp ii-iv

Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law Volume II - Title page

pp v-v

Copyright page

pp vi-vi

Dedication

pp vii-viii

Contents

pp ix-x

Contributors

pp xi-xv

Foreword

pp xvi-xvii

Acknowledgements

pp xviii-xviii

Abbreviations

pp xix-xx

1 - Introduction

pp 1-10

I - Historical perspectives

pp 11-78

2 - Healthcare serial killings: was the case of Dr Harold Shipman unthinkable?

pp 13-42

3 - ‘Thesleep of death’1: anaesthesia, mortality and the courts from ether toAdomako

pp 43-64

4 - Getting mixed up in crime: doctors, disease transmission, confidentiality and thecriminal process

pp 65-78

II - Criminal errors

pp 79-174

5 - Victims’ voices, victims’ interests and criminal justice in the healthcare setting

pp 81-100

6 - Medical manslaughter and expert evidence: the roles of context and character

pp 101-116

7 - The road to the dock: prosecution decision-making in medical manslaughter cases

pp 117-158

8 - Psychiatric care and criminal prosecution

pp 159-174

III - Organisational perspectives

pp 175-226

9 - Involuntary automaticity and medical manslaughter

pp 177-191

10 - Medical manslaughter: organisational liability

pp 192-209

11 - The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 and maternal death: an opportunity to address systemic deficiencies in maternity services?

pp 210-226

IV - International perspectives

pp 227-319

12 - From prosecution to rehabilitation: New Zealand’s response to health practitioner negligence

pp 229-247

13 - Doctors who kill and harm their patients: the Australian experience

pp 248-264

14 - The role of the criminal law in healthcare malpractice in France: examining the HIV blood contamination scandal

pp 265-279

15 - The use and impact of the criminal process on the treatment of pain in the USA

pp 280-300

16 - Exploring the tension between physician-assisted dying and palliative medicine

pp 301-319