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Dementia, women and sexuality: how the intersection of ageing, gender and sexuality magnify dementia concerns among lesbian and bisexual women (2014)
Journal Article
(2014). Dementia, women and sexuality: how the intersection of ageing, gender and sexuality magnify dementia concerns among lesbian and bisexual women. Dementia, 1494-1514. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301214564446

There is a growing appreciation of the significance of socio-cultural context for the experiences of an individual living with dementia. There is, too, an emergent awareness that dementia is a gendered issue, disproportionately affecting women compar... Read More about Dementia, women and sexuality: how the intersection of ageing, gender and sexuality magnify dementia concerns among lesbian and bisexual women.

Injuries from unforeseeable risks which advance medical knowledge—a restitution-based justification for strict liability (2014)
Journal Article
(2014). Injuries from unforeseeable risks which advance medical knowledge—a restitution-based justification for strict liability. Journal of European Tort Law, https://doi.org/10.1515/jetl-2014-0014

In this article I examine the case for restitutionary-based strict liability towards patients who were injured from risks which were unforeseeable at the time of treatment: involuntarily, the patient has advanced knowledge which will prevent harm to... Read More about Injuries from unforeseeable risks which advance medical knowledge—a restitution-based justification for strict liability.

Gillick Reinstated: Judging Mid-Childhood Competence in Healthcare Law: An NHS Trust v ABC & A Local Authority [2014] EWHC 1445 (Fam). (2014)
Journal Article
(2014). Gillick Reinstated: Judging Mid-Childhood Competence in Healthcare Law: An NHS Trust v ABC & A Local Authority [2014] EWHC 1445 (Fam). Medical Law Review, 303 -314. https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwu033

This case commentary discusses a recent case concerning the competence of a 13-year-old girl to consent to the termination of her pregnancy. It critically analyses four specific elements of the judgment—Gillick competence, the impact of best interest... Read More about Gillick Reinstated: Judging Mid-Childhood Competence in Healthcare Law: An NHS Trust v ABC & A Local Authority [2014] EWHC 1445 (Fam)..

Ageism and Autonomy in Health Care: Explorations through a relational lens (2014)
Journal Article
Pritchard-Jones. (2014). Ageism and Autonomy in Health Care: Explorations through a relational lens. Health Care Analysis, 72-89. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-014-0288-1

Ageism within the context of care has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Similarly, autonomy has developed into a prominent concept within health care law and ethics. This paper explores the way that ageism, understood as a set of negati... Read More about Ageism and Autonomy in Health Care: Explorations through a relational lens.

Civilised Communities: Reconsidering the 'Gloomy Tale' of Immigration and Social Order in a Changing Town (2014)
Journal Article
Griffiths, C. (2014). Civilised Communities: Reconsidering the 'Gloomy Tale' of Immigration and Social Order in a Changing Town. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azu064

Immigration and its effects on crime, social disorder and community tensions remains a pervasive feature of public, government and academic discourse. This discourse often considers immigration, and immigrants themselves, as a threat to the community... Read More about Civilised Communities: Reconsidering the 'Gloomy Tale' of Immigration and Social Order in a Changing Town.

Rethinking Moral Expertise (2014)
Journal Article
Priaulx, N., Weinel, M., & Wrigley, A. (2014). Rethinking Moral Expertise. Health Care Analysis, 393-406. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-014-0282-7

We argue that the way in which the concept of expertise is understood and invoked has prevented progress in the debate as to whether moral philosophers can be said to be ‘moral experts’. We offer an account of expertise that draws on the role of taci... Read More about Rethinking Moral Expertise.

Ethics and end of life care: the Liverpool Care Pathway and the Neuberger Review (2014)
Journal Article
Wrigley. (2014). Ethics and end of life care: the Liverpool Care Pathway and the Neuberger Review. Journal of Medical Ethics, 639-643. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2013-101780

The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying has recently been the topic of substantial media interest and also been subject to the independent Neuberger Review. This review has identified clear failings in some areas of care and recommended the Liverpoo... Read More about Ethics and end of life care: the Liverpool Care Pathway and the Neuberger Review.

Sustaining the Character of a Judge: Conflict Within the Legal Thought of British India (2014)
Journal Article
(2014). Sustaining the Character of a Judge: Conflict Within the Legal Thought of British India. Journal of Legal History, 44-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440365.2014.883048

Judicial roles provided the raj with major dilemmas. One persistent dispute related to civil servants sitting as judges. Critics argued that civil servants had a superficial legal education and lacked appropriate practical experience of work in the c... Read More about Sustaining the Character of a Judge: Conflict Within the Legal Thought of British India.