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Criminal Law, Philosophy and Public Health Practice The goal of improving public health involves the use of different tools, with the law being one way to inluence the activities of institutions...

Criminal Law, Philosophy and Public Health Practice The goal of improving public health involves the use of different tools, with the law being one way to inluence the activities of institutions and individuals. Of the regulatory mechanisms afforded by law to achieve this end, criminal law remains a perennial mechanism to delimit the scope of individual and group conduct. However, crim- inal law may promote or hinder public health goals, and its use raises a number of complex questions that merit exploration. This examination of the interface between criminal law and pub- lic health brings together international experts from a variety of dis- ciplines, including law, criminology, public health, philosophy and health policy, in order to examine the theoretical and practical impli- cations of using criminal law to improve public health. A. M. Viens is Lecturer in Law at the University of Southampton. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum. John Coggon is Reader in Law at the University of Southampton. Anthony S. Kessel is Director of Public Health Strategy for Public Health England. He is also an Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Published online by Cambridge University Press  Cambridge Bioethics and Law This series of books was founded by Cambridge University Press with Alexander McCall Smith as its i rst editor in 2003. It focuses on the law’s com- plex and troubled relationship with medicine across both the developed and the developing world. Since the early 1990s, we have seen in many countries increasing resort to the courts by dissatisied patients and a growing use of the courts to attempt to resolve intractable ethical dilemmas. At the same time, legislatures across the world have struggled to address the questions posed by both the successes and the failures of modern medicine, while international organisations such as the WHO and UNESCO now regularly address issues of medical law. It follows that we would expect ethical and policy questions to be integral to the analysis of the legal issues discussed in this series. The series responds to the high proi le of medical law in universities, in legal and medical practice, as well as in public and political affairs. We seek to relect the evidence that many major health-related policy debates in the UK, Europe and the international community involve a strong medical law dimension. With that in mind, we seek to address how legal analysis might have a trans-jurisdictional and inter- national relevance. Organ retention, embryonic stem cell research, physician assisted suicide and the allocation of resources to fund health care are but a few examples among many. The emphasis of this series is thus on matters of public concern and/or practical signiicance. We look for books that could make a difference to the development of medical law and enhance the role of medico-legal debate in policy circles. That is not to say that we lack interest in the important theoretical dimensions of the subject, but we aim to ensure that theoretical debate is grounded in the realities of how the law does and should interact with medicine and health care. Series Editors Professor Margaret Brazier, University of Manchester Professor Graeme Laurie, University of Edinburgh Professor Richard Ashcroft, Queen Mary, University of London Professor Eric M. Meslin, Indiana University Books in the series Marcus Radetzki, Marian Radetzki and Niklas Juth, Genes and Insurance: Ethical, Legal and Economic Issues Ruth Macklin, Double Standards in Medical Research in Developing Countries Donna Dickenson, Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives Matti Häyry, Ruth Chadwick, Vilhjálmur Á rnason and Gardar Á rnason, The Ethics and Governance of Human Genetic Databases: European Perspectives Ken Mason, The Troubled Pregnancy: Legal Wrongs and Rights in Reproduction Published online by Cambridge University Press  Daniel Sperling, Posthumous Interests: Legal and Ethical Perspectives Keith Syrett, Law, Legitimacy and the Rationing of Health Care Alastair Maclean, Autonomy, Informed Consent and the Law: A Relational Change Heather Widdows, Caroline Mullen, The Governance of Genetic Information: Who Decides? David Price, Human Tissue in Transplantation and Research Matti Häyry, Rationality and the Genetic Challenge: Making People Better? Mary Donnelly, Healthcare Decision-Making and the Law: Autonomy, Capacity and the Limits of Liberalism Anne-Maree Farrell, David Price and Muireann Quigley, Organ Shortage: Ethics, Law and Pragmatism Sara Fovargue, Xenotransplantation and Risk: Regulating a Developing Biotechnology John Coggon, What Makes Health Public?: A Critical Evaluation of Moral, Legal, and Political Claims in Public Health Mark Taylor, Genetic Data and the Law: A Critical Perspective on Privacy Protection Anne-Maree Farrell, The Politics of Blood: Ethics, Innovation and the Regulation of Risk Stephen Smith, End-of-Life Decisions in Medical Care: Principles and Policies for Regulating the Dying Process Michael Parker, Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice William W. Lowrance, Privacy, Conidentiality, and Health Research Kerry Lynn Macintosh, Human Cloning: Four Fallacies and Their Legal Consequence Heather Widdows, The Connected Self: The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual Amel Alghrani, Rebecca Bennett and Suzanne Ost, Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law Volume I: The Criminal Law and Bioethical Conlict: Walking the Tightrope Danielle Grifiths and Andrew Sanders, Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law Volume II: Medicine, Crime and Society Margaret Brazier and Suzanne Ost, Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law Volume III: Medicine and Bioethics in the Theatre of the Criminal Process Sigrid Sterckx, Kasper Raus and Freddy Mortier, Continuous Sedation at the End of Life: Ethical, Clinical and Legal Perspectives A. M. Viens, John Coggon and Anthony S. Kessel, Criminal Law, Philosophy and Public Health Practice Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press  Criminal Law, Philosophy and Public Health Practice Edited by A. M. Viens, John Coggon and Anthony S. Kessel Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press