Prof Sheila Mclean
- Emeritus Professor of Law and Ethics in Medicine (Law)
telephone: 01413305577
email: Sheila.McLean@glasgow.ac.uk
Professor McLean is the first holder of the International Bar Association Chair of Law and Ethics in Medicine at Glasgow University and is Director of the Institute of Law and Ethics in Medicine at Glasgow University. She has acted as a consultant to the World Health Organisation and the Council of Europe, and to individual States. She has published extensively in the area of medical law, is on the Editorial Board of a number of national and international Journals.
Current External Appointments
- UK Adviser to WHO Europe on revision of Health for All Policy
- Specialist Adviser, House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology
- Member, BMA Ethics Committee
- Member, Wellcome Trust, Biomedical Ethics Panel
- Member, Policy and Evaluation Advisory Committee, Nuffield Trust
- Member, Selection Panel, Broadcasting Council for Scotland
- Member, Audit Committee, World Association for Medical Law
- Member, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Task
- Force on Ethics Consultation Liability
- Member, AHRB Peer Review College
- Member, Ethics Committee, International Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecology (FIGO)
Previous External Appointments
- Founding Chairperson, Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (appointed by Her Majesty, The Queen)
- Appointed by the Department of Health to review the Consent Provisions of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority Act
- Chair, Inter-Agency Forum on Female Offenders (appointed by the Minister for Justice)
- Chair, Steering Group, Review of the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act
- (UK Department of Health appointment)
- Chair, Committee of Inquiry into Retention of Organs at Post-Mortem
- Vice-Chair, Multi-Centre Research Ethics Committee (Scotland)
- Member, Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration (appointed by the Prime Minister)
- Member, UK Xenotransplantation Interim Regulatory Authority
- Member, Broadcasting Council for Scotland
- Member, Scottish Higher Education Funding Council
- Member, Scottish Office Working Group on the Confidentiality of Personal Health
- Information at the Interface Between Medical and Social Services
- Secretary of State Appointee to the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting
- Member, Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing Working Group on Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis
- Member, Expert Committee on Financial and Other Assistance
- Member, Advisory Group to the Data Protection Registrar (Information Commissioner) on Biotechnology
- Member, Medical Research Council Advisory Committee on Genetics
Research Interests
All aspects of medical law, with particular reference to consent to treatment, end of life issues, human rights, genetics and the law and human reproduction - particularly reproductive rights. In addition, Professor McLean has engaged in a number of research projects which focus on the implications of legal, ethical and social science methodologies for public policy in healthcare delivery.
2012
McLean, S. (2012) Decisions and dilemmas at the end of life. In: Mulhearn, M. (ed.) Law: A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology. Series: Scottish Life and Society . Tuckwell Press / European Ethnological Research Centre, East Linton, UK. (In Press)
McLean, S. (2012) Ethical dilemmas in obstetrics and gynaecology. In: Edmonds, K. (ed.) Dewhurst's Textbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Wiley, Chichester, UK. ISBN 9780470654576 (In Press)
McLean, S., and Elliston, S. (2012) Conclusion. In: McLean, S. and Elliston, S. (eds.) Regulating Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9780415686440 (In Press)
2011
Sch, U., Van Delden, J.J.M., Downie, J., McLean, S.A.M. , Upshur, R., and Weinstock, D. (2011) End-of-life decision-making in Canada: the report by the Royal Society of Canada expert panel on end-of-life decision-making. Bioethics, 25 (s1). pp. 1-73. ISSN 0269-9702 (doi:10.1111/j.1467-8519.2011.01939.x)
2010
Gertz, Renate, and McLean, Sheila (2010) Meeting the needs of the alcohol dependent: different models in public health policy in England and New Zealand. Medical Law International, 10 (3). pp. 217-238. ISSN 0968-5332
McLean, Sheila (2010) Giving up or Letting Go?; Law Hospital NHS Trust v Lord Advocate. In: Sutherland, E. and Grant, J. (eds.) Scots Law Tales. Dundee University Press , Dundee, pp. 137-152. ISBN 9781845860677
McLean, Sheila (2010) The ethical dilemma of vegetative states. Guardian .
McLean, Sheila (2010) The law, medicine and women's rights. In: Luesley, D. M. and Baker, P. N. (eds.) Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd, London, pp. 25-30. ISBN 9780340990131
McLean, Sheila, and Morgan, D (2010) Taking it or leaving it: Demanding and refusing medical treatment in intensive care. In: Danbury, C., Newdick, C., Lawson, A. and Waldmann, C. (eds.) Law and Ethics in Intensive Care. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 91-114. ISBN 978-0199562039
McLean, S.A.M. (2010) Human Rights and Bioethics. Other. UNESCO.
2009
McLean, Sheila (2009) Sheila McLean on advance directives and the case of Kerrie Wooltorton. BMJ Group Blogs . (doi:http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/01/sheila-mclean-on-advance-directives-and-the-case-of-kerrie-wooltorton)
Connelly, C., McLean, S. , and Mason, J.K. (2009) Purdy in Scotland: we hear, but should we listen? Juridical Review, 121 (4). pp. 265-284. ISSN 0022-6785
McLean, S (2009) Are advance directives legally binding or simply the starting point for discussion on patients' best interests? Ethical view. British Medical Journal, 339 . ISSN 1759-2151
McLean, S (2009) Autonomy, Consent and the Law: a critique', Revista de Direito Médico e da Saúde, Year IV. Journal of Medical and Health Law, 15 . pp. 85-111.
McLean, S (2009) Interests of the Future Child. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Wiley, Oxford. ISBN 9780470015902
McLean, S (2009) Live and Let Die. British Medical Journal, 339 . ISSN 1759-2151
McLean, S (2009) Making Public Health Policy: What place for the alcohol-dependent? Journal of Law and Medicine, 17 (3). pp. 373-385. ISSN 1320-159x
McLean, S, and Morgan, D. (2009) Choosing Death or Life: Law, Medicine and Patients' Rights. Juridical Review, 14 (2). pp. 129-148. ISSN 1085-4681
McLean, S. (2009) Autonomy, Consent and the Law. Series: Biomedical law and ethics library . Routledge-Cavendish. ISBN 9780415473392
McLean, Sheila (2009) Clinical ethics consultation in the United Kingdom. Diametros, 22 . pp. 76-89. ISSN 1733-5566
McLean, Sheila (2009) Law and Regulation. In: Atkinson, P, Glasner, P and Lock, M (eds.) Handbook of Genetics and Society. Series: Routledge International Handbooks . Routledge, London, pp. 267-282. ISBN 9780415410809
2008
McLean, Sheila (2008) Whose decision is it anyway? BMJ Group Blogs .
Gertz, R, Leverick F, , and McLean S, (2008) Alcoholism and Criminal Liability. Juridical Review (3). pp. 171-191. ISSN 0022-6785
McLean, S (2008) Assisted Dying - The View From the United Kingdom. In: Birnbacher, D and Dahl, E (eds.) Giving Death a Helping Hand: Physician Assisted Suicide and Public Policy. An International Perspective. Springer, pp. 113-128. ISBN 1402064969
McLean, S (2008) Clinical Ethics Committees: A due process wasteland? Clinical Ethics, 3 (2). pp. 99-104. ISSN 1477-7509
McLean, S (2008) Clinical ethics committees, due process and the right to a fair hearing. Journal of Law and Medicine, 15 (4). pp. 520-529. ISSN 1320-159x
McLean, S (2008) The Human Embryo as Clinical Tool. In: Mieth, D, Rehmann-Sutter, C and Duwell, M (eds.) The Contingent Nature of Life: Bioethics and the Limits of Human Existence. Springer-Verlag, pp. 209-220. ISBN 9781402067624
McLean, S (2008) Why Have a Free Vote on Saviour Siblings. Bionews, 453 .
McLean, S, Campbell, A., and Gutridge, K. (2008) Human tissue legislation: listening to the professionals. Journal of Medical Ethics, 34 (2). pp. 104-108. ISSN 0306-6800
McLean, Sheila (2008) Decision-making in the terminal phase in UK. Waseda Proceedings of Comparative Law, 11 . pp. 77-86.
McLean, Sheila (2008) Hannah's Choice. Guardian .
Stenson, B., and McLean, Sheila (2008) Ethics. In: McIntosh, N., Helms, P., Smyth, R. and Logan, S. (eds.) Forfar & Arneill's Textbook of Pediatrics. Churchill Livingston, Edinburgh, 163 -174. ISBN 978-0443103964
2007
McLean, S. (2007) Understanding our Rights. Guardian .
Clery, E., McLean, S. , and Phillips, M. (2007) Quickening death: the euthanasia debate. In: Park, A. (ed.) British Social Attitudes: Perspectives on a Changing Society : the 23rd Report. SAGE Publications, in association with the National Centre for Social Research. ISBN 9781412934329
McLean, S (2007) Assisted Reproduction and the Welfare of the Child. In: Gunning, J and Holm, S (eds.) Ethics, Law and Society. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 107-122.
McLean, S (2007) Consent or assent in paediatric research. In: Paediatric Clinical Research Manual. BMJ Group, 9.1-9.20.
McLean, S (2007) Who and What Are Clinical Ethics Committees For? Journal of Medical Ethics, 33 (9). pp. 497-500. ISSN 0306-6800
McLean, S (2007) Withholding Medical Treatment: The United Kingdom Position. Quality End of Life Care: Research on Medical Safety and Health Technology Assessment . pp. 89-103.
McLean, S, and Williamson L, (2007) The Demise of UKXIRA and the Regulation of Solid Organ Xenotransplantation in the United Kingdom. Journal of Medical Ethics, 33 (7). pp. 373-375. ISSN 0306-6800
McLean, S. (2007) Assisted Dying: Reflections on the Need for Law Reform. Series: Biomedical law and ethics library . Routledge-Cavendish. ISBN 9781844720552
McLean, S. (2007) Genes, Society and the Future Vol 2. Human Genome Research Project. ISBN 9780473126612
McLean, S. (2007) Law, ethics and health care. In: Ashcroft, R.E., Dawson, A., Draper, P. and McMillan, J.R. (eds.) Principles of Health Care Ethics. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780470027134
McLean, S. (2007) Law, ethics and intensive care – an introduction. In: Ridley, S. (ed.) Ethical Issues in Intensive Care. Series: Critical care focus (13). Intensive Care Society, London, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9780955589706
McLean, S., and Williamson, L. (2007) Impairment and Disability: Law and Ethics at the Beginning and End of Life. Series: Biomedical law and ethics library . Routledge-Cavendish. ISBN 9781844720415
Williamson, L, Fox, M, and McLean, S (2007) The Regulation of Xenotransplantation in the UK after UKXIRA: Legal and Ethical Issues. Journal of Law and Society, 34 (4). pp. 441-464. ISSN 0263-323x
Williamson, L, McLean, S , and Connell, J (2007) Clinical Ethics Committees in the United Kingdom - Towards Evaluation. Medical Law International, 8 (3). pp. 221-238. ISSN 0968-5332
2006
McLean, S. (2006) An ethical dilemma? Life and Work (9). ISSN 0024-306X
McLean, S (2006) De-Regulating Assisted Reproduction: Some Reflections. Medical Law International, 7 (3). pp. 233-247. ISSN 0968-5332
McLean, S (2006) Ethico-Legal Decision-Making in Healthcare. NES Education for Scotland/ Glasgow University . ISSN 1 873327 47 1
McLean, S (2006) From Bland to Burke: The Law and Politics of Assisted Nutrition and Hydration. In: McLean, Sheila (ed.) First Do No Harm: Law, Ethics and Healthcare. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 421-446. ISBN 978-0754626145
McLean, S (2006) Law and Ethics: A New Governance Issue? Clinical Risk, 11 (3). pp. 110-115. ISSN 1758-1028
McLean, S. (2006) Life, the right to: assisted suicide. In: Smith, R.K.M. and van den Anker, C. (eds.) The Essentials of Human Rights. Hodder Arnold, pp. 236-238. ISBN 9780340815758
McLean, S. (2006) Is Consent always the Appropriate Concept? In: Proceedings International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO (IBC), 12 th Session. UNESCO, pp. 193-196.
McLean, S. (2006) La fecondazione medicalmente assistita nel Regno Unito: il dibattito sulla regolazione giuridica. In: Casonato, C. and Frosini, T.E. (eds.) La fecondazione assistita nel diritto comparato. Series: Diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo (2). Giappichelli, pp. 93-105. ISBN 9788834863756
McLean, S. (2006) Main findings. In: Henaghan, M. (ed.) Genes for Future Children: Regulating Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis. New Zealand Law Foundation/Human Genome Research Project, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9780473113124
McLean, S. (2006) Modern Dilemmas: Choosing Children. Capercaillie Press. ISBN 9780955124624
McLean, S., Campbell, A., Gutridge, K., and Harper, H. (2006) Human tissue legislation and medical practice: A benefit or a burden? Medical Law International, 8 (1). pp. 1-21. ISSN 0968-5332 (doi:10.1177/096853320600800101)
2005
McLean, S (2005) The Legal Context. In: Morris, Z. S., Chang, L.R., Dawson, S. and Garside, P. (eds.) Policy Futures for UK Health. Radcliffe Publishing, Abington, pp. 43-50. ISBN 1 84619 003 7
McLean, S (2005) Our Inheritance, Our Future: Their Rights? The International Journal of Children's Rights, 13 (1_2). pp. 255-272. ISSN 0927-5560
McLean, S (2005) Permanent vegetative state: The legal position. pp. 237-250. ISSN 0960-2011
McLean, S (2005) The Right to Life: Euthanasia. In: Smith, R.K.M. and van den Anker, C. (eds.) The Essentials of Human Rights. Hodder Arnold, London, pp. 242-244. ISBN 9780340815748
McLean, S, and Doyal, L (2005) Choosing Children: Intergenerational Justice? Reproductive BioMedicine Online, 10 (Suppl ). pp. 119-124. ISSN 1472-6491
McLean, S, and Elliston, Sarah (2005) The Management of Pregnancy and Labour. In: Norman, J. and Greer, I. (eds.) Preterm Labour: Managing Risk in Clinical Practice. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 329-363. ISBN 052182186X
McLean, S. (2005) Assisted Reproduction and the Welfare of the Child. Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society.
McLean, S. (2005) Consent or assent in paediatric research. In: Helms, P. and Stonier, P. (eds.) Paediatric Clinical Research Manual: a Practical International Handbook for all those Working in Clinical Research. Euromed Communications.
McLean, S. (2005) The Right to Life: assisted suicide. In: Smith, R.K.M. and Anker, C. v.d. (eds.) The Essentials of Human Rights. Hodder Arnold, pp. 236-238. ISBN 9780340815748
McLean, S. (2005) Sex selection: Intergenerational justice or injustice. International Journal of Medicine and Law, 24 (4). pp. 761-774. ISSN 0334-3049
McLean, S., and Williamson, L. (2005) Xenotransplantation: Law and Ethics. Ashgate. ISBN 9780754623793
2004
McLean, S. (2004) Morals or ethics? Chemical Engineer, 29 . ISSN 0302-0797
Elliston, S, and McLean, S (2004) Death, Decision Making and the Law. Juridical Review (3). pp. 265-293. ISSN 0022-6785
McLean, S (2004) Consent and Refusal: The Competent Adult. In: Thomas, D., Thompson, J. and Ridler, B (eds.) A Manual for Blood Conservation. TFM Publishing Ltd, pp. 203-212. ISBN 1903378249
McLean, S (2004) The Genetics Revolution - Can the Law Cope? In: Magill, G, (ed.) Genetics and Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Study. St. Louis University Press, pp. 35-52. ISBN 978-0965292979
McLean, S (2004) Regulating Research and Experimentation: A View from the UK. Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 32 (4). pp. 604-612. ISSN 1073-1105
McLean, S (2004) United Kingdom - The Illegality of Euthanasia. In: Ethical Eye: Euthanasia: National and European Perspectives. Council of Europe, pp. 95-104. ISBN 92-871-5200-4
McLean, S, and Williamson, L (2004) Xenotransplantation: A Pig in a Poke? Current Legal Problems, 57 . pp. 443-468. ISSN 199274681
McLean, S. (2004) Intergenerational justice - duties, responsibilities, and choices. In: Medical Ethics Tomorrow. British Medical Association.
McLean, S. (2004) Introduction. In: Genetics and Gene Therapy. Series: International library of medicine, ethics, and law . Ashgate, xi-xxx. ISBN 9780754620556
McLean, S. (2004) The Law, medicine and women's rights. In: Luesley, D. and Baker, P. (eds.) Obstetrics and Gynaecology: An Evidence-based text for MRCOG. Arnold, pp. 24-32. ISBN 9780340808757
McLean, Sheila, and Elliston, Sarah (2004) Managing Pregnancy and Labour. In: Norman, J, and Greer, I. (eds.) Preterm Labour: Managing Risk in Clinical Practice. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 329-363. ISBN 978-0521821865
2003
McLean, S (2003) Genetic Screening Programs. Nature Encyclopaedia of Human Genetics, 2 . pp. 930-934. ISSN 1061-4036
McLean, S (2003) The Genetic Testing of Children. In: Sandor, J. (ed.) Society and Genetic Information: Codes and Laws in the Genetic Era. Central European University Press, Budapest, pp. 145-160. ISBN 963 9241 75X
McLean, S (2003) Interests of the Future Child. Nature Encyclopaedia of Human Genetics, 3 . pp. 528-530. ISSN 1061-4036
McLean, S (2003) Recent Issues in assisted reproduction in the United Kingdom. Clinical Risk, 9 (1). pp. 18-22. ISSN 1758-1028
McLean, S. (2003) Reviewing UK transplant legislation. In: Morris, Sir Peter (coordinator) (ed.) Transplants. Series: Ethical eye . Council of Europe Publ., pp. 149-160. ISBN 9789287147790
McLean, S. (2003) The Right to Live and the Right to Die. DRC.
McLean, S., and Mason, J.K. (2003) Legal and Ethical Aspects of Health Care. Greenwich Medical Media. ISBN 1841101281
2002
McLean, S (2002) Birth. In: The Seven Ages of Life. Centre for Reform, pp. 19-34.
McLean, S (2002) Post-Mortem Examinations: Removal and Retention of Organs in the United Kingdom. Res Publica, 11 . pp. 20-23. ISSN 1230-2155
McLean, S (2002) Post-Mortem Human Reproduction: Legal and Other Regulatory Issues. Journal of Law and Medicine, 9 (4). pp. 429-437. ISSN 1320-159X
McLean, S (2002) Sheila McLean. In: Devine, T. and Logue, P. (eds.) Being Scottish: Personal Reflections on Scottish Identity Today. Polygon, Edinburgh, pp. 171-173. ISBN 1902930363
McLean, S (2002) What is wrong with human reproductive cloning? Genetics Law Monitor .
McLean, S (2002) A regulamentacao da Nova Genetics. In: Casabona, C. R. (ed.) Biotecnologia Direito e Bioetica. Del Rey, pp. 146-155. ISBN 8586480045
McLean, S, and Ramsey, J. (2002) Human Rights, Reproductive Freedom, Medicine and the Law. Medical Law International, 5 (4). pp. 239-258. ISSN 0968-5332
McLean, S. (2002) Introduction. In: McLean, S. (ed.) Medical Law and Ethics. Series: The international library of essays in law and legal theory . Ashgate Dartmouth, xi-xxiii. ISBN 0754620034
McLean, S. (2002) Commentary on Glannon and Ross, and McKay. Journal of Medical Ethics, 28 (2). p. 74. ISSN 0306-6800 (doi:10.1136/jme.28.2.74)
McLean, S. (2002) Legal and Ethical Issues in Xenotransplantation. Other. Department of Health, London, UK.
McLean, S. (2002) Prenatal diagnostics, abortion and access to procreational care. In: Zwartjens, D. (ed.) Legal Aspects of Medical Care: honours class 2001. Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum, pp. 61-66.
2001
McLean, S (2001) Patient status: the foetus and the pregnant woman. In: Children on the Agenda. Prospect Media Pty, pp. 223-238.
McLean, S (2001) Permanent Vegetative State and the Law. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psyschiatry with Practical Neurology, 71 (Suppl ). pp. 126-127. ISSN 0022-3050
McLean, S (2001) The gene genie: good fairy or wicked witch. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Biological and Biomedical Sciences,, 32 (4). pp. 723-739. ISSN 1369-8486
McLean, S. (2001) Women who offend: sanction, sympathy, segregation or strategy? In: James Smart Lecture 2000. Scottish Police College, pp. 1-29.
McLean, S. (2001) The new genetics - a critique. In: Torrance, I. (ed.) Bio-ethics for the New Millennium. St. Andrew Press, pp. 1-29. ISBN 0861533054
2000
McLean, S (2000) Aspects ethiques, juridiques et reglementaires de utilisation de cellules souches embryonnaires humaines en Grande-Bretagne. In: Dodet, B. and Vicari, M. (eds.) Cellules souches pluripotentes: perspectives therapeutiques et aspects ethiques. John Libbey, pp. 35-44. ISBN 2742003681
McLean, S (2000) Gene Therapy - Cure or Challenge? In: Freeman, M. and Lewis, A. (eds.) Law and Medicine. Series: Current Legal Issues Volume 3 . Oxford University Press, pp. 205-222. ISBN 978-0-19-829918-9
McLean, S (2000) Genetic Screening - Controlling the Future. Biological Sciences, 12 . pp. 36-39.
McLean, S (2000) Information Disclosure and Consent. In: Gunning, J. (ed.) Assisted Conception: Research, Ethics and Law. Ashgate , pp. 67-74. ISBN 754621499
McLean, S (2000) Informed Consent, Medical Research and the Competent Adult. In: Informed Research in Medical Research. BMJ Books, pp. 166-172.
McLean, S (2000) Intergenerational Justice: A Brave New World or a Leap in the Dark. Genetics Law Monitor .
McLean, S (2000) A Moral Right to Procreation? Assisted Procreation and Persons at Risk of Hereditary Genetic Disease. In: Haker, H. and Beyleveld, D. (eds.) The Ethics of Genetics in Human Procreation. Ashgate, pp. 13-27. ISBN 978-0754610212
McLean, S (2000) No consent means not treating the patient with respect (Commentary). In: Informed Research in Medical Research. BMJ Books.
McLean, S. (2000) Making Ethical Decisions. Other. Highland Health Board.
1999
McLean, S (1999) Consent/Assent to Treatment. In: Webb , A., Shapiro,, M., Singer , M. and Suter., P. (eds.) Oxford Textbook of Critical Care. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 192627376
McLean, S (1999) Controlling the Future? - Human Rights and Biotechnology. Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 6 (3). pp. 299-307. ISSN 1023-263x
McLean, S (1999) Creating Postmorten Pregnancies: A UK Perspective. Juridical Review (6). pp. 323-342. ISSN 1085-4681
McLean, S (1999) Law, Ethics and Medical Progress - Allies or Adversaries? Journal of Law and Medicine, 7 . pp. 1-25. ISSN 1320-159x
McLean, S (1999) Legal and Ethical Aspects of the Vegetative State. Journal of Clinical Pathology, 52 . pp. 490-493. ISSN 0021-9746
McLean, S (1999) Regulating the New Genetics. In: Romeo Casabona, C,M. (ed.) Biotechnology, Law and Bioethics: Comparative Perspectives. Bruylant, Brussels, pp. 209-222. ISBN 2802712926
McLean, S (1999) A UK Perspective on Health Care Constraints. In: Exter, D. and Hermans, H. (eds.) The Right to Health Care in Several European Countries. Kluwer Law International. ISBN 9789041110879
McLean, S. (1999) Old Law, New Medicine: Medical Ethics and Human Rights. Pandora/Rivers Oram. ISBN 9780863584039
1998
McLean, S (1998) Dialysis Treatment Withdrawal - Legal Aspects (UK). Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation, 13 (5). pp. 1152-1153. ISSN 0931-0509
McLean, S (1998) The Genetic Testing of Children: Some Legal and Ethical Concerns. In: Clark, A.J. (ed.) The Genetic Testing of Children. Taylor & Francis , pp. 17-26. ISBN 1859961460
McLean, S (1998) Interventions in the Human Genome. Modern Law Review, 61 (5). pp. 681-696. ISSN 0026-7961
McLean, S (1998) Interventions in the Human Genome. In: Brownsword, R., Cornish, W. and Llewelyn, M. (eds.) Law and Human Genetics: Regulating a Revolution. Hart, Oxford, pp. 89-104. ISBN 1841130060
McLean, S (1998) La regulacion de la Nueva Gentica. In: Casabona , C. (ed.) Biotechnologia y Derecho Perspectivas en Derecho Comparado. Comares, pp. 193-206. ISBN 84-8151-690-2
McLean, S (1998) The Moral and Legal Boundaries of Fetal Intervention: Whose Right/Whose Duty? Seminars in Neonatology, 3 (4). pp. 249-254. ISSN 1084-2756
McLean, S (1998) The New Genetics. Life and Work, 10 . ISSN 0024-306x
McLean, S (1998) Review of the Consent Provisions of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act. Department of Health .
McLean, S (1998) Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Prolonging Treatment. Medical Law International, 3 ( 2/3). pp. 169-182. ISSN 0968-5332
McLean, S, and Gannon, P (1998) Genetics and Insurance. In: Sorell, T. (ed.) Health Care, Ethics and Insurance. Routledge, pp. 87-100. ISBN 041516284X
1997
McLean, S (1997) Consent and the law: Review of the Current Provisions of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 for the UK Health Ministers. Department of Health . pp. 1-78.
McLean, S (1997) Litigation. In: Boyd , K., Higgs , R. and Pinching , A. (eds.) The New Dictionary of Medical Ethics. Wiley. ISBN 978-0727910011
McLean, S (1997) No consent means not treating the patient with respect. British Medical Journal, 314 . p. 1076. ISSN 0959-535x
McLean, S (1997) The Role of the Lawyer in Medical Ethics. In: Harper, J. R. (ed.) Global Law in Practice. Kluwer Law International, pp. 83-98. ISBN 9041104607
McLean, S., and Britton, A. (1997) The Case for Physician Assisted Suicide. Series: Pandora soapbox series . Pandora Press.
McLean, S., and Britton, A. (1997) Sometimes a Small Victory (Report on Physician Assisted Suicide). Other. University of Glasgow / Institute of Law and Ethics in Medicine.
1996
McLean, S (1996) Law at the End of Life - What Next. In: McLean, Sheila (ed.) Death, Dying and the Law. Dartmouth Publishing, pp. 49-66. ISBN 1855216574
McLean, S (1996) The New Genetics : A Challenge to Clinical Values? Proceeding of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburg, 26 . pp. 41-50. ISSN 0953-0932
McLean, S (1996) Transplantation and the 'Nearly Dead': The Case of Elective Ventilation. In: McLean, Sheila (ed.) Contemporary Issues in Law, Medicine and Ethics. Dartmouth Publishing, pp. 143-162. ISBN 978-1855215863
McLean, S, and Petersen, K. (1996) Patient Status: The Foetus and the Pregnant Woman. Australian Journal of Human Rights, 2 (2). pp. 229-241. ISSN 1323-238x
McLean, S. (1996) Advance directives - legal and ethical considerations. In: Pace, N. and McLean, S. (eds.) Ethics and the Law in Intensive Care. Series: Oxford medical publications . Oxford University Press, pp. 68-83. ISBN 0192625209
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