Outputs (292)
On the Origins of Human Rights (2020)
Journal Article
This article reviews Pamela Slotte and Miia Halme-Tuomisaari’s edited volume Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights, treating it as an opportunity to reconsider theories about the history and origins of human rights thought and practice. It argues th... Read More about On the Origins of Human Rights.
Maternal request caesareans and COVID-19: the virus does not diminish the importance of choice in childbirth (2020)
Journal Article
It has recently been reported that some hospitals in the UK have placed a blanket restriction on the provision of maternal request caesarean sections (MRCS) as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pregnancy and birthing services are obviously facing ch... Read More about Maternal request caesareans and COVID-19: the virus does not diminish the importance of choice in childbirth.
Homebirthing in the United Kingdom during COVID-19 (2020)
Journal Article
COVID-19 has significantly impacted all aspects of maternity services in the United Kingdom, exacerbating the fact that choice is insufficiently centred within the maternity regime. In this article, we focus on the restrictions placed on homebirthing... Read More about Homebirthing in the United Kingdom during COVID-19.
Partial ectogenesis: freedom, equality and political perspective (2020)
Journal Article
Why the Elective Caesarean Lottery is Ethically Impermissible (2019)
Journal Article
Antitrust Control of Merger & Acquisition in Transitional Economies: A Case Study of China (2005)
Journal Article
Towards Europeanisation Through the Proportionality Test? The Impact of Free Movement Law on Medical Professional Discipline (2020)
Journal Article
Medical doctors can exercise their free movement rights to escape the control of professional regulation at the national level. This “darker side” of free movement of doctors has received a lot of attention. This article will show that the free movem... Read More about Towards Europeanisation Through the Proportionality Test? The Impact of Free Movement Law on Medical Professional Discipline.
‘They’ve been with me the whole journey’: temporality, emotional labour and hairdressing work (2020)
Journal Article
The role of time in organisational and relational development remains an understudied component of work and employment. In response, this article draws attention to the ways that temporality informs relations between workers and clients in service wo... Read More about ‘They’ve been with me the whole journey’: temporality, emotional labour and hairdressing work.
Healthcare professional standards in pandemic conditions: The duty to obtain consent to treatment (2020)
Journal Article
In the United Kingdom, the question of how much information is required to be given to patients about the benefits and risks of proposed treatment remains extant. Issues about whether healthcare resources can accommodate extended shared decision-maki... Read More about Healthcare professional standards in pandemic conditions: The duty to obtain consent to treatment.
COVID-19 super-spreaders: definitional quandaries and implications (2020)
Journal Article
Uncertainty around the role ‘super-spreaders’ play in the transmission and escalation of infectious disease is compounded by its broad and vague definition. It is a term that has been much used in relation to COVID-19, particularly in social media. O... Read More about COVID-19 super-spreaders: definitional quandaries and implications.
#gainingweightiscool: The use of transformation photos on Instagram among female weightlifters in recovery from eating disorders (2020)
Journal Article
In this article, we explore transformation photos on Instagram as ‘digital artefacts’ that can inform understandings of eating disorder recovery in the context of sport, exercise and health. Transformation photos are two images (from different time p... Read More about #gainingweightiscool: The use of transformation photos on Instagram among female weightlifters in recovery from eating disorders.
The social and material life of medicinal clay: Exploring antimicrobial resistance, medicines' materiality and medicines optimization (2020)
Journal Article
While sociologists have made significant theoretical contributions to the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) debate, little attention has been given to the antimicrobial products themselves. Here we advocate a significant new direction which centres on t... Read More about The social and material life of medicinal clay: Exploring antimicrobial resistance, medicines' materiality and medicines optimization.
Head to Head: Should doctors tackling covid-19 be immune from negligence liability claims? (2020)
Journal Article
Litigation related to exceptional circumstances would be a complicated drain on a workforce and system already on its knees after the pandemic, says Christine Tomkins. But Craig Purshouse, Rob Heywood, José Miola, Emma Cave, and Sarah Devaney argue t... Read More about Head to Head: Should doctors tackling covid-19 be immune from negligence liability claims?.