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  • XENOTRANSPLANTATION
    SHEILA A. M. MCLEAN
    Originally published in 2005. One of the leading causes of death is organ failure, that is, when one or other of the organs that run the machine we call the body gives out. However, whereas with a machine spare parts can usually replace faulty parts, in the case of humans the supply of these is limited as it is dependent on organs being obtained from living or dead donors. Due ...

    $1,160.00

  • GENETICS AND GENE THERAPY
    SHEILA A.M. MCLEAN
    Genetics and Gene Therapy shows the wide range of the debate and the very real significance that genetics and its associated developments have for human beings, individually and collectively. Few areas of science and medicine have resulted in the volume of academic and popular literature as has genetics. The so-called revolution in understanding of the causes of disease states,...

    $1,460.00

  • FIRST DO NO HARM
    MCLEAN, SHEILA A M, PROFESSOR
    This collection brings together essays from leading figures in the field of medical law and ethics which address the key issues currently challenging scholars in the field. It has also been compiled as a lasting testimony to the work of one of the most eminent scholars in the area, Professor Ken Mason. The collection marks the academic crowning of a career which has laid one of...

    $1,460.00

  • REGULATING PRE-IMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS
    A.M. MCLEAN, SHEILA / ELLISTON, SARAH
    The successful achievement of pregnancies following pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) was first reported in April 1990. The technology is often used for patients who are at substantial risk of conceiving a pregnancy affected by a known genetic disorder, however from this technology other more controversial uses have arisen such as HLA typing to save the life of a sibling...

    $1,100.00

  • AUTONOMY, CONSENT AND THE LAW
    SHEILA A.M. MCLEAN
    Autonomy is often said to be the dominant ethical principle in modern bioethics, and it is also important in law. Respect for autonomy is said to underpin the law of consent, which is theoretically designed to protect the right of patients to make decisions based on their own values and for their own reasons. The notion that consent underpins beneficent and lawful medical inter...

    $1,460.00