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Margaret Brazier

Publications and source records attributed to Margaret Brazier.

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PubMed2002

Wilfred Fish lecture.

It is a great honour to be invited to deliver this lecture in memory of Sir Wilfred Fish, first President of the General Dental Council. I am only too well aware of my unfitness for the task: my experience of dentistry is limited to the dental chair; my knowledge of dental law is virtually nil. I trust that Sir Wilfred would not disapprove. His contribution to dentistry was enormous; his labours ensured that dentistry received both the independent recognition it merits and its own regulatory framework, freed from any sort of subservience to medicine.

Child↗
PubMed1990

Unfinished feticide: a legal commentary.

Jansen expresses concern as to the legal implications of both selective reduction of pregnancy and unsuccessful attempts at termination of pregnancy using mifepristone. This commentary examines the legality of both procedures and concludes that Jansen is over-optimistic in his belief that neither procedure is likely to fall foul of the criminal laws on induced abortion. By contrast his anxieties about civil liability arising from the subsequent live birth of a damaged infant are, it is suggested, unnecessarily pessimistic. Such an action is most unlikely to succeed if brought by the infant herself and any claim on the part of the mother will normally be dependent on proof of negligence. The commentary focusses on the law in England with relevant references to other common law jurisdictions.

Abortion, Eugenic↗