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Best interests decision-making in the Chinese adult guardianship regime through a P-centric lens. p中心视角下的中国成人监护制度的最佳利益决策。

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Medical Law Review Pub Date : 2025-07-14 DOI: 10.1093/medlaw/fwaf020

Daisy Cheung

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China's online pharmacy: its regulatory policy and a future research agenda for the emerging AI age. 中国的在线药店：其监管政策和未来人工智能时代的研究议程。

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Medical Law Review Pub Date : 2025-07-14 DOI: 10.1093/medlaw/fwaf024

Pinghui Xiao

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Sterile, religiously neutral, and colourblind: on religious symbols in healthcare. 无菌、宗教中立和色盲：论医疗保健中的宗教符号。

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Medical Law Review Pub Date : 2025-07-14 DOI: 10.1093/medlaw/fwaf023

Naoual El Yattouti

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Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust UKSC 1: no quarter for deserving claimants. 保罗诉皇家伍尔弗汉普顿NHS信托UKSC 1：没有应得的索赔人。

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Medical Law Review Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1093/medlaw/fwaf016

Man Him Lee

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Assisted dying, vulnerability, and the potential value of prospective legal authorization. 协助死亡，脆弱性，以及未来法律授权的潜在价值。

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Medical Law Review Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1093/medlaw/fwaf014

Alexandra Mullock, Jonathan Lewis

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How does regulation influence euthanasia practice in Belgium? A qualitative exploration of involved doctors' and nurses' perspectives. 法规如何影响比利时的安乐死实践？涉及医生和护士的观点的定性探索。

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Medical Law Review Pub Date : 2025-01-04 DOI: 10.1093/medlaw/fwaf003

Madeleine Archer, Lindy Willmott, Kenneth Chambaere, Luc Deliens, Ben P White

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Saving trouble, saving time: the role and impact of healthcare consultation recordings in Australian legal proceedings. 省事，省时：医疗咨询记录在澳大利亚法律诉讼中的作用和影响。

IF 1.8 4区医学

Medical Law Review Pub Date : 2025-01-04 DOI: 10.1093/medlaw/fwaf012

Megan Prictor

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The two lives of the Mental Capacity Act: rethinking East-west binaries in comparative analysis. 精神能力法的两种生命：在比较分析中重新思考东西方的二元对立。

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Medical Law Review Pub Date : 2025-01-04 DOI: 10.1093/medlaw/fwae034

Hillary Chua, Camillia Kong, Michael Dunn

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A reparatory account of health inequities. 对卫生不公平现象的补偿性说明。

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Medical Law Review Pub Date : 2025-01-04 DOI: 10.1093/medlaw/fwae044

Michael Thomson

{"title":"A reparatory account of health inequities.","authors":"Michael Thomson","doi":"10.1093/medlaw/fwae044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwae044","url":null,"abstract":"Colonialism has left biological and social legacies that damage health. The resulting racialized health inequities re-enact past harms and are a profound social injustice. In response, this article brings together reparatory justice and health equity. Understandings of reparatory justice have evolved from a focus on compensation for past wrongs to the need for a more sustained and expansive politics of repair. This seeks to recognize the history and legacies of harm while diminishing the likelihood that such harms are repeated. Addressing racialized health inequities in the UK, and working with this articulation of reparatory justice, this article argues for the repair of bodies that continue to be damaged by historically rooted harms. Social determinants of health research has long linked socio-economic inequalities to poor health outcomes, and promoting health equity by addressing these inequalities can be an important element of the work to repair the past. This response acknowledges the moral case for both reparatory justice and health equity, while potentially addressing problems faced by traditionally articulated reparatory claims. Finally, exploring law's role in addressing racialized health inequities can help us better understand how law is a determinant of health and its role in advancing health equity.","PeriodicalId":49146,"journal":{"name":"Medical Law Review","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142933226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The fifty shades of black: about black box AI and explainability in healthcare. 五十度黑：关于医疗保健领域的黑匣子人工智能和可解释性。

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Medical Law Review Pub Date : 2025-01-04 DOI: 10.1093/medlaw/fwaf005

Vera Lúcia Raposo

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