MEDICAL LAW AND HUMANITIES

Area coordinator: Imogen Goold, imogen.goold@st-annes.ox.ac.uk

Law, particularly law relating to health and medicine, necessarily raises deeply human questions about who we are, how we live, how we manage illness, reproduction, our bodies, and ultimately death. Medical Law has, of course, been influenced by ethics and philosophy, but there are interdisciplinarities that offer rich and valuable insights. This TORCH stream presents the ideal means to bring together scholars working in history, anthropology, literature, bioethics and the arts to inform medical law scholarship, and in turn gain a deeper perspective on how the legal system responds to problems in realm of health and medicine.