Introduction / Sara Fovargue and Craig Purshouse
Altruism, markets and the importance of the social contract in healthcare : Richard Titmuss's the gift relationship / Anne-Maree Farrell
Principled effects : the importance of Beauchamp and Childress' principles of biomedical ethics / Stephen Smith
The realisation of human rights in mental health law : Larry Gostin's 'the ideology of entitlement : the application of contemporary legal approaches to psychiatry' / Judy Laing
'Master of medical law'? Peter Skegg's Law, ethics, and medicine and the denial of life-prolonging treatment / Richard Huxtable
The Warnock Report on Human Fertilisation and Embryology (1984) / Emma Cave
Identifying the disease but not the cure : Ian Kennedy's 'what is a medical decision?' / José Miola
Taking the long view : David Rothman's strangers at the bedside : a history of how law and bioethics transformed medical decision making / Mary Donnelly and Barry Lyons
How to control disease transmission : Brazier and Harris's 'public health and private lives' / Craig Purshouse
The importance of listening to patients : Sarah Franklin's embodied progress: a cultural account of assisted conception / Emily Jackson
Integrating feminisms' perspectives into the legal curriculum : feminist perspectives on health care law / Sara Fovargue
Emily Jackson, regulating reproduction : law, technology and autonomy / Jo Bridgeman
Disclosing genetic information within families and beyond : Graeme Laurie's genetic privacy: a challenge to medico-legal norms / Roy Gilbar
Setting a research agenda for mental capacity law : Mary Donnelly's healthcare decision-making and the law / Jaime Lindsey
Thinking carefully about organ donation : Janet Radcliffe-Richards's the ethics of transplants: why careless thought costs lives / Bonnie Venter
Cohering the normative and the empirical : Jonathan Ives's 'a method of reflexive balancing in a pragmatic, interdisciplinary and reflexive bioethics' / Louise Austin
Learning lessons about how to learn from mistakes : errors, medicine and the law / Sarah Devaney
Reflections on these leading works / Bernadette Richards.