This work brings together leading and emerging scholars in Health Law and Ethics. Each contributor analyses a 'leading work', which has for them shed light on the field's development. These are both autobiographical, reflecting upon the works that have proved significant to contributors, and also critical analyses of the current state of the field.

Sara Fovargue is Professor of Law in the School of Law at the University of Sheffield, England.

Craig Purshouse is a senior lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool, England.

Notes on contributors x Acknowledgements xii 1 Introduction 1 SARA FOVARGUE AND CRAIG PURSHOUSE 2 Altruism, markets, and the importance of the social contract in healthcare: Richard Titmuss's The Gift Relationship 9 ANNE-MAREE FARRELL 3 Principled effects: The importance of Beauchamp and Childress's Principles of Biomedical Ethics 25 STEPHEN W SMITH 4 The realisation of human rights in mental health law: Larry Gostin's 'The ideology of entitlement: The application of contemporary legal approaches to psychiatry' 39 JUDY LAING 5 'Master of medical law'? Peter Skegg's Law, Ethics, and Medicine and the denial of life-prolonging treatment 53 RICHARD HUXTABLE 6 The Warnock Report on Human Fertilisation and Embryology (1984) 70 EMMA CAVE 7 Identifying the disease but not the cure: Ian Kennedy's 'What is a medical decision?' 87 JOSÉ MIOLA 8 Taking the long view: David Rothman's Strangers at the Bedside: A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making 102 MARY DONNELLY AND BARRY LYONS 9 How to control disease transmission: Margaret Brazier and John Harris's 'Public health and private lives' 119 CRAIG PURSHOUSE 10 The importance of listening to patients: Sarah Franklin's Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception 134 EMILY JACKSON 11 Integrating feminisms' perspectives into the legal curriculum: Feminist Perspectives on Health Care Law 148 SARA FOVARGUE 12 Emily Jackson, Regulating Reproduction: Law, Technology, and Autonomy 164 JO BRIDGEMAN 13 Disclosing genetic information within families and beyond: Graeme Laurie's Genetic Privacy: A Challenge to Medico-Legal Norms 180 ROY GILBAR 14 Setting a research agenda for mental capacity law: Mary Donnelly's Healthcare Decision-Making and the Law 196 JAIME LINDSEY 15 Thinking carefully about organ donation: Janet Radcliffe-Richards's The Ethics of Transplants: Why Careless Thought Costs Lives 211 BONNIE VENTER 16 Cohering the normative and the empirical: Jonathan Ives's 'A method of reflexive balancing in a pragmatic, interdisciplinary and reflexive bioethics' 227 LOUISE AUSTIN 17 Learning lessons about how to learn from mistakes: Errors, Medicine and the Law 240 SARAH DEVANEY 18 Reflections on these leading works 255 BERNADETTE RICHARDS Index