Research Areas
Health, Law
Dr Sara Fovargue
Senior Lecturer
Bowland North
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
United Kingdom
LA1 4YN
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Office hours: I am on sabbatical leave from 15 December 2012-14 April 2013.
Affiliations
My research largely centres around two areas, biotechnology and reproduction, and I am particularly interested in xenotransplantation. Themes within my work include autonomy, risk, regulation, and the relationship between law and ethics. My research explores legal and ethical aspects of clinical research, regulation and risk, and I have published on the legal regulation of xenotransplantation, and issues surrounding consenting to risk. I am also interested in decision making processes and practices with regard to the 'vulnerable'.
PhD Supervision Interests
Health care law and ethics generally. I am particularly interested in clinical research involving human and non-human animals, developing biotechnologies such as xenotransplantation (especially issues of risk and regulation), reproductive technologies, and decision making for the 'vulnerable'
Family law - especially issues around parents, parenthood and reproductive technologies, children and childhood - particularly children and health.
Current Teaching
2012-2013 - Lent Term - I am on sabbatical leave from 15 December 2012-14 April 2013.
Michaelmas Term
UG - Part II, Second year - Law 240 Family Law, joint course convenor with Dr Sarah Beresford, lecturer and seminar leader.
Final year - Law 343 Health Care Law and Ethics, joint course convenor with Professor Suzanne Ost, lecturer and seminar leader.
Law 350 - Gender and the Law - lecturer and seminar leader.
PG - LLM 101 Foundations of Medical Law, course tutor.
External Roles
Associate Editor (Public Policy and Law) of Clinical Ethics (published by the Royal Society of Medicine).
Associate Editor (Book Reviews) of the Medical Law Review, pubished by Oxford University Press.
2012 - External Examiner, University of Dundee, LLM Healthcare Law and Ethics.
2012 - External Examiner, University of Manchester, LLM Health Care Ethics and Law.
2012 Wellcome Trust peer reviewer.
2010- External Examiner, LLB (Hons) Glasgow University.
2010 ESRC peer reviewer.
2009 PhD External Examiner, Law School University of Newcastle upon Tyne: 'Women's Empowerment versus the Sanctity of Life: The Law and the Politics of Family Planning in Nigeria and the United Kingdom - A Comparative Analysis'.
2005-9 External Examiner, LLM Health Care Ethics and Law, Law School, University of Huddersfield.
2004-8 External Examiner, MSc Health Care Ethics, Department of Primary Care, Liverpool University.
I am a peer reviewer for a variety of journals including the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics; Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law; Child and Family Law Quarterly; Medical Law International; Bioethics; Genomics, Society and Policy, Medical Law Review; and the Journal of Medical Ethics.
Professional Role
Co-Director, Centre for Bioethics and Medical Law.
Equality, Diversity and Disabilities Officer.
Additional Information
Office hours
I am on sabbatical leave from 15 December 2012-14 April 2013.
Current Research
I am currently working on 4 projects:
(i) the role of the public in determining the legal response to reproductive biotechnologies such as sex selection for non-medical reasons (with Rebecca Bennett, University of Manchester).
(ii) an ethical and legal defence of of a compulsory national breast implant registry (with Lucy Frith, Univesity of Liverpool)
(iii) research regulation and 'vulnerability'
(iv) xenotransplantation in Europe
In Press
Exposing the limits of the law?: Biotechnological challenges to global health
Fovargue, S. 2013 In: Law and Global Health. Freeman, M. & Hawkes, S. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, (Current Legal Issues).
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Does the theoretical framework change the legal end result for mature minors refusing medical treatment or creating self-generated pornography?
Fovargue, S. & Ost, S. 2013 In: Medical Law International.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Doctrinal Incoherence or Practical Problem? Minor Parents Consenting to their Offspring’s Medical Treatment and Involvement in Research in England and Wales
Fovargue, S. 2013 In: Child and Family Law Quarterly.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2012
La investigación embrionaria humana en Reino Unido: ¿una isla en Europa? [Embryo Research in the UK: An Island in Europe?]
Fovargue, S. 2012 In: European Laws Relating to Biomedical Research into Cell Nuclear Replacement. Garcia San Jose, D. (ed.). Thomson Reuters, p. 157-176. 15 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Editorial
Biggs, H., Ost, S., Fovargue, S. & Miola, J. 01/2012 In: Medical Law Review. 20, 1, p. 6-7. 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2011
Xenotransplantation and Risk: Regulating a Developing Biotechnology
Fovargue, S. 17/11/2011 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 306 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
Key Changes in the Regulation of Assisted Reproduction Introduced by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008
Fovargue, S. & Miola, J. 12/2011 In: Clinical Ethics. 6, 4, p. 162-166. 5 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
The European Union Directive on Organ Donation and Transplantation
Fovargue, S. & Miola, J. 09/2011 In: Clinical Ethics. 6, 3, p. 117-121. 5 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Treating Those Who Are Mentally Disordered Under the Mental Health Act 1983: Part 2
Fovargue, S. & Miola, J. 06/2011 In: Clinical Ethics. 6, 2, p. 64-67. 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Assessing and Detaining Those Who Are Mentally Disordered under the Mental Health Act 1983 and Mental Capacity Act 2005: Part 1.
Fovargue, S. & Miola, J. 03/2011 In: Clinical Ethics. 6, 1, p. 11-14. 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2010
The best interests principle and providing treatment for adults without capacity in England and Wales.
Fovargue, S. & Miola, J. 12/2010 In: Clinical Ethics. 5, 4, p. 180-183. 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
The legal status of the fetus.
Fovargue, S. & Miola, J. 09/2010 In: Clinical Ethics. 5, 3, p. 122-124. 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
When should precaution prevail?: interests in (public) health, the risk of harm and xenotransplantation.
Fovargue, S. & Ost, S. 2010 In: Medical Law Review. 18, 3, p. 302-329. 28 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
One step forward, two steps back? The GMC, the common law and 'informed' consent.
Fovargue, S. & Miola, J. 08/2010 In: Journal of Medical Ethics. 36, 8, p. 494-497. 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Research and Adults without Capacity.
Fovargue, S. J. & Miola, J. 2010 In: Clinical Ethics. 5, 2, p. 63-66. 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
How much information is 'enough'?
Fovargue, S. & Miola, J. 03/2010 In: Clinical Ethics. 5, 1, p. 13-15. 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2009
Deprivation of liberty under the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
Fovargue, S. 03/2009 In: Clinical Ethics. 4, 1, p. 10-11. 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
A plea for precaution with public health: the xenotransplantation example.
Fovargue, S. & Ost, S. 09/2009 In: Clinical Ethics. 4, 3, p. 119-124. 6 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2008
Why donor insemination requires developments in family law: the need for new definitions of parenthood.
Fovargue, S. 2008 In: Medical Law Review. 16, 3, p. 458-464. 7 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Organ donation and transplantation.
Fovargue, S. 09/2008 In: The New Oxford Companion to Law. Cane, P. & Conaghan, J. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 853-854. 2 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
2007
'Oh pick me, pick me': selecting participants for xenotransplant clinical trials.
Fovargue, S. 2007 In: Medical Law Review. 15, 2, p. 176-219. 44 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Autonomy, decision-making, and role of the law in protecting the 'vulnerable'.
Fovargue, S. 06/2007 In: Clinical Ethics. 2, 2, p. 55-55. 1 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2006
Re R (A Child Appearing by her Guardian ad litem): assisting conception for the single infertile.
Fovargue, S. 2006 In: Child and Family Law Quarterly. 18, 3, p. 423-444. 22 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
A Brief Guide to the Human Tissue Act 2004.
Brazier, M. & Fovargue, S. J. 03/2006 In: Clinical Ethics. 1, 1, p. 26-32. 7 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2005
Consenting to bio-risk: xenotransplantation and the law.
Fovargue, S. 09/2005 In: Legal Studies. 25, 3, p. 404-429. 26 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Book review of R. Scott, 'Rights, duties and the body: law and ethics of the maternal-foetal conflict'.
Fovargue, S. 2005 In: Medical Law Review. 13, 1, p. 131-135. 5 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
A Leap of Faith? Sanctioning Xenotransplant Clinical Trials.
Fovargue, S. J. 01/2005 In: Liverpool Law Review. 26, 2, p. 125-147. 23 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2003
Warning: Health 'choices' can kill.
Flynn, M., Keywood, K. & Fovargue, S. J. 02/2003 In: The Journal of Adult Protection. 5, 1, p. 30-34. 5 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2002
The law's response to pregnancy and childbirth: consistency, conflict or compromise?
Fovargue, S. 03/2002 In: Modern Law Review. 65, 2, p. 290-303. 14 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2001
Mapping stories, mapping bodies.
Fovargue, S. 05/2001 In: Res Publica. 7, 2, p. 183-186. 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2000
Making decisions for adults with learning disabilities: who decides?
Fovargue, S. & Keywood, K. 2000 In: Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care. 10, p. 341-344. 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Participation in health care decision-making by adults with learning diasbilities.
Fovargue, S. J., Keywood, K. & Flynn, M. 06/2000 In: Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care. 3, 10, p. 341-344. 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
1999
Best Practice? Health Care Decision-Making By, With and For Adults with Learning Disabilities.
Keywood, K., Fovargue, S. J. & Flynn, M. 1999 Manchester, UK: National Development Team, 68 p.
Research output: Working paper
1998
Re MB [1997] 8 Med LR 217.
Fovargue, S. 10/1998 In: Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. 20, 4, p. 427-437. 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Policing Pregnancy: Implications of the Attorney-General's Reference (No 3 of 1994).
Fovargue, S. J. & Miola, J. 1998 In: Medical Law Review. 6, 3, p. 265-296. 32 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Legal and Ethical Issues Surrounding the Involvement of Children in Health Care Research
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