Margaret Brazier, Law and Healing: A History of a Stormy Marriage, Manchester University Press, 2023, hardback, 253 pp, £85, ISBN 9781526129185. Medical law is a maturing discipline. Although a relative newcomer to law school curricula, medical law is now widely offered, belying the efforts early adopters had to go to in order to defend its legitimacy as a field of serious legal scholarship. With a tendency to focus on the challenges of emerging technologies, it has been easy to categorise medical law as a new area of academic inquiry, and for research to concentrate on the present and future rather than looking to the lessons of history. This narrow focus, however, misses the potential insights that come from a longer-term view …
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Rebekah McWhirter, Margaret Brazier, Law and Healing: A History of a Stormy Marriage, Medical Law Review. Published: 23 December 2023.
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