{"product_id":"law-and-healing-a-history-of-a-stormy-marriage-9781526129185","title":"Law and Healing: A History of a Stormy Marriage","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book delves into medico-legal history, travelling back in time to explore English law’s fascinating and often acrimonious relationship with healing and healers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChallenging assumptions that medical law is a recent development, \u003ci\u003eLaw and healing\u003c\/i\u003e traces the regulation of healers from the Church's dominance to legal battles fought among medical practitioners. As well as considering the history of the regulation of healers, this book addresses moral issues such as abortion, bodily sovereignty, and the use of cadavers in research. It highlights how fundamental legal and ethical questions continue to resurface, for example, from   controversy in the Renaissance over human dissection to modern-day debates about organ donation.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaw and healing\u003c\/i\u003e provides a colourful but critical account of the longstanding – and often fraught – relationship between two fundamental pillars of human society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Medico-legal history: why bother?\u003cbr\u003e2 Medical brethren\u003cbr\u003e3 ‘Unruly brethren’: regulation and reputation\u003cbr\u003e4 The bumpy road to the General Medical Council\u003cbr\u003e5 Medical litigation\u003cbr\u003e6 Human life, common law and Christianity\u003cbr\u003e7 Your living body: ‘temple of the soul’\u003cbr\u003e8 Reproductive bodies: mothers, midwives and morals\u003cbr\u003e9 The not (yet) born child\u003cbr\u003e10 Honouring the dead: commodifying the corpse\u003cbr\u003ePostscript\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040994885975,"sku":"9781526129185","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/law-and-healing-a-history-of-a-stormy-marriage-9781526129185","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}