{"product_id":"9781526129185-law-and-healing","title":"Law and Healing","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA History of a Stormy Marriage\u003cbr\u003eA critical and colourful commentary on the history of  the fractious relationship between  law and medicine over several centuries reveals compelling stories how law regulated healers and healing . Any view that the law consistently deferred to medical practitioners is shown to be wrong.  From the womb to the grave, enduring  themes are identified.\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57029718409590,"sku":"9781526129185","price":108.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41095316.jpg?v=1777871376","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781526129185-law-and-healing","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}