Suzanne Ost is Professor of Law at Lancaster University. Her publications on health care law and bioethics, and child sexual exploitation, include Medicine and Bioethics in the Theatre of the Criminal Process (with Margaret Brazier), and Child Pornography and Sexual Grooming: Legal and Societal Responses.

Hazel Biggs is Emeritus Professor of Healthcare Law and Bioethics at the University of Southampton, having retired in September 2020. Throughout her career, she published widely on the legal and ethical aspects of numerous areas of health care law and bioethics, including end of life care, medical research and human reproduction.

This book provides an assessment of whether exploitation in the doctor-patient relationship is a special case. It contextualises the evaluation by exploring the nature of this relationship and making an assessment of patients' vulnerability to such exploitation.

1. Introduction
2. What is exploitation? Philosophical foundations
3. Wrongful exploitation in the doctor-patient relationship
4. Patient vulnerability and exploitation
5. Sexual exploitation in the doctor-patient relationship

Part 1: Sexual boundary breaches and sexual exploitation

Part 2: The appropriate legal response to sexual exploitation

6. Assisted dying and exploitation
7. Reflecting on exploitation in the doctor-patient relationship