#DesignTheLawNepal video instruction for Legal Design Toolkit on sexual and reproductive health rights in Nepal — filmed with @sabrinagermain.bsky.social and Emily Allbon for our joint project w/ iProbono and LAPSOJ youtube.com/watch?v=u96V...

🎧 @sabrinagermain.bsky.social and I released Season 2 of CLS's Law & Society #Podcast this month! 🎙️ Listen to Ep1 Dr Beatriz Lopes-Buarque, Ep2 Jas Bhatoa @rightsofwomen.bsky.social and Ep3 Dr Zaina Mahmoud on Spotify or Apple Podcasts! open.spotify.com/show/0dxmxIA... @citystgeorges.bsky.social

In Chapter 19, Death & Dying, Dunja Begovic, Yakubu Salifu, and Sheila Payne consider the ethico-legal challenges in palliative care noting that the focus is often on right to die, rather than rights to quality of life care. They also explore global inequalities in palliative care 🌍

Chapter 18, exploring research ethics, provides a much-needed historical contextualisation of the foundations of clinical research ethics by Zareen Bheekhun & Silvia Camporesi. They problematise how principles like clinical equipoise and therapeutic misconception have been applied 👩‍🔬

In Chapter 17 Aileen Editha considers how organ scarcity for donation particularly impacts ethnic minorities in the UK and whether and what law and regulation can do it address this - with focus on recent changes to opt out in the UK 🫀

Chapter 16 considers capable children’s medical treatment using fiction. Rebecca Limb considers the extent to which young people are empowered to consent to and refuse medical treatment and the evident asymmetry 🔞

In Chapter 15 @zainamahmoud.bsky.social and I consider the obstetric violence and racism that is a systemic problem in the NHS and beyond and the extent to which the law intervenes in birthing choices and behaviour in pregnancy 🤰🏽

Chapter 14 covers abortion and contraception. @whiterxbbit.bsky.social introduces feminist perspectives, access challenges in the UK, contemporary legal debates about abortion (criminal status and disability grounds) and the utility of a reproductive justice lens ⚖️

In Chapter 13 Rita D’Alton Harrison, Philip Bremner, and Cynthia Mbugua consider access to assisted reproductive technologies and how access has been limited along the axes of ethnicity, sexual orientation, and age 🧫

Chapter 12 looks at the law of confidentiality. @japarsons.bsky.social Naomi Jones and I use the case studies of adult and child safeguarding to explore information disclosure and abortion reporting requirements to explore data protection 📊

In Chapter 11 @drmagdafurgalska.bsky.social draws from her empirical work to show how mental health law enabling inpatient care is experienced by individuals. The chapter introduces the capabilities approach and considers the potential that it offers to think about the law differently 💬

In Chapter 10 @bevclough.bsky.social explores the ableist assumptions underlying the Mental Capacity Act 2005, the utility of using a disability studies perspective to think about capacity, and what we should be learning from the UNCRPD 🧍‍♀️

Chapter 9 explores informed consent and whether there has been a problematic shift towards treating patients like consumers in obtaining their consent. Caterina Milo and Thana De Campos-Rudinsky consider how reframing our discussion of the dr-patient relationship with ‘Ethics of Love’ may help ❤️

In Chapter 8 Amel Alghrani and Hannah Saad consider the disproportionate impact of the use of gross negligence manslaughter to prosecute health professionals on BAME doctors 👩🏾‍⚕️

In Chapter 7, @whiterxbbit.bsky.social, @sabrinagermain.bsky.social and I consider how the NHS complaints system and the tort of negligence have systemically failed as they embed problematic gendered and racialised norms in their functioning 🚩

Chapter 6 by Joshua Parker provides an overview to the ethical issues posed to healthcare provision and providers by the climate crisis as well as what should be done about it 🌎

In Chapter 5. Harleen Kaur Johal & @sabrinagermain.bsky.social use Covid-19 as a case study to consider the distinction between equity and equality in healthcare, resource allocation problems, and systemic racism in the NHS ✖️

Chapter 4 brings health inequalities to their proper place at the forefront of thinking about health law - John Coggon & Beth Kamunge-Kpodo consider the realities of unequal access to care and the structural causes of ill health and environment in the UK 🟰

In chapter 3 @annanelson95.bsky.social tackles the question of what ‘health(y)’ is by thinking about what it is not to address explicit and implicit ableist, racist, and sexist assumptions underlying the concept of ‘health’ and its impact on marginalised groups ⚕️

Chapter 2 is an examination of the ‘four principles’ approach in bioethics and its limitations. Marisha Wickremsinhe explores complexities with a principalism approach using the case study of caring for people with opioid dependencies in hospital 🏥

First, an introduction by me, @sabrinagermain.bsky.social and @jonathanherring.bsky.social that reflects on diversity in health and medical law and ethics, and the relevance of critical theory perspectives and law in context approaches in our classrooms and research

Diverse Voices in Health Law and Ethics is now published! 🎉 to celebrate - a 🧵of all the contributions bringing a social justice/critical perspective to the health and medical law curriculum! It was such a privilege to work with every author on such important interventions 👇

V heartening this morning to hear about the work of @ecromanis.bsky.social and @sabrinagermain.bsky.social as they explore how to improve abortion access for the most marginalised women and gender non-conforming people 🙏

I wrote the chapter on abortion and contraception, and co-write the chapter on medical negligence with @ecromanis.bsky.social and @sabrinagermain.bsky.social - introducing a more critical/feminist approach to teaching these topics!

Author copies of our ed textbook ( @sabrinagermain.bsky.social @jonathanherring.bsky.social ) have arrived ahead of publication in Feb! 🥳 Bringing social justice and critical theory to the fore of med law/ethics paperback preorders are just £30 🤩- bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/diverse-voic...

📣Coming out soon (Feb 25th) a new textbook edited by @sabrinagermain.bsky.social @jonathanherring.bsky.social and me offering insights on embedding diverse perspectives into teaching health(care) law! Info about contributors and the intro is available: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/diverse-voic...

Please spread the word! We are recruiting 2 peer researchers (age 16-25) for our research project on young people’s experiences of racism and discrimination in health All the information is available here: raceequalityfoundation.org.uk/health-care/....

@sabrinagermain.bsky.social and I are speaking on our abortion access project (online) at Edinburgh’s Mason Institute this Tuesday afternoon. Details here if you’re interested ✨ - www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

Excited to share the cover of our new edited textbook forthcoming, edited with @ecromanis.bsky.social @sabrinagermain.bsky.social . Fantastic contributors with a commitment to intersectionality and to making space for diverse stories & voices in the approach.

Social & Legal Studies have posted a blog on A Yong's and my BUP collection Beyond the Virus. You can see what it's all about! Thanks to all our contributors socialandlegalstudies.wordpress.com/2023/11/20/b...

Social & Legal Studies have posted a blog on A Yong's and my BUP collection Beyond the Virus You can see what it's all about! Thanks to all our contributors! Beyond the Virus – Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives on Inequalities Raised by COVID-19 | S&LS Blog (wordpress.com)

On my way to Bristol! Very much looking forward to meeting colleagues at the Centre for Health, Law and Society and presented my research on inequalities ok accessing healthcare services & deliberative regulation You can join us in person or online ticketpass.org/event/EIALLB...

Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference Call for Papers is now open (and closes at 18:00 on 12 January 2024) SLSA 2024, 26-28 March 2024, University of Portsmouth (and virtually) www.slsa2024.co.uk/calls

Great news! The 2024 @SLSA_UK annual conference will be hosted by the University of Portsmouth University from 26-28 March 2024. 🌟The Call for papers is now OPEN with submission of abstracts by 12 January 2024 🌟 See the Website for full details ⬇️ www.slsa2024.co.uk

New paper out this morning! In a ✨feature article ✨ in @JME_BMJ, @VickyAdkins1990 and I explore pregnancy loss distinct from procreative loss and reflect on what this might mean for the development of artificial placenta care pathways dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme-...