Dr. Alasdair Maclean

Senior Lecturer

Email: a.r.maclean@dundee.ac.uk

Direct Dial: +44 (0)1382 384634

Room No: 4.24

Degrees

BSc(Hons); MBBS; DA; FRCA; PG Dip Law; M.Jur; Ph.D

Biography

Alasdair MacLean originally qualified in medicine in 1987 and converted to law in 1997. He then went to the University of Durham where he undertook research into the dilemma of non-consensual treatment of pregnant women, which led to the award of the degree of Master of Jurisprudence. In 1999 he started a PhD at the University of Southampton looking at the legal regulation of consent to medical treatment and the competent adult patient.

In 2001 he moved to the University of Glasgow, where he worked for four years as lecturer in medical law and ethics. He moved to the University of Dundee in June 2005, as a senior lecturer in law, where he is currently teaching medical law to undergraduate law students. He is the director of the LL.M in Healthcare Law and Ethics

Teaching

Undergraduate:- Medicine and Law (Honours); Law and Medical Ethics (Honours)

Postgraduate:- Distance Learning LLM Healthcare Law and Ethics

He offers postgraduate supervision in the field of most medical law topics including, consent and autonomy, incapacity, treating children, medical negligence, clinical research, end of life issues, abortion, and fetal status and protection.

Research

This is focused on medical law and ethics. He has recently completed a PhD Thesis on Consent to Medical Treatment and is continuing to research the legal protection of autonomy; advance directives; and law, responsibility and justice in medical law.

Selected Publications

Articles

2008 Alasdair Maclean, "Autonomy, Informed Consent and the Law: A Relational Challenge " in Cambridge University Press: Cambridge
2008 Alasdair Maclean, "Magic, Myths and Fairy Tales: Consent and the Relationship Between Law and Ethics " in Freeman, M.(eds) Law and Bioethics, Current Legal Issues, vol 11, Oxford University Press: Oxford
2008 Alasdair Maclean, "Keyholders and flak jackets: the method in the madness of mixed metaphors" in 3 Clinical Ethics, pp. 121-126
2008 Alasdair Maclean, "Advance Directives and the Rocky Waters of Anticipatory Decision-Making" in 16 Medical Law Review, pp. 1-22
2006 Alasdair Maclean, "Advance Directives, Future Selves and Decision-Making" in 14 Medical Law Review, pp. 291-320 ISSN: 0967 0742
2006 Alasdair Maclean, "Autonomy, Consent and Persuasion" in European Journal of Health Law 13(4), pp. 321-338
2005 Alasdair Maclean, "Giving the Reasonable Patient a Voice: Information Disclosure and the Relevance of Empirical Evidence" in 7 Medical Law International, pp. 1-40 ISSN: 0968-5332
2004 Alasdair Maclean, "Distributing the Burden of a Blessing" in 1 Journal of Obligation and Remedies, pp. 23-45 ISSN: 1470-8086
2004 Alasdair Maclean, "The doctrine of informed consent: does it exist and has it crossed the Atlantic?" in 24(3) Legal Studies, pp. 386-413 ISSN: 0261-3875
2002 Alasdair Maclean, "Canaries in the Mine" in 5(4) Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 5(4), pp. 164-186 ISSN: 1369-8230
2002 Alasdair Maclean, "Consent, Sectionalisation and the Concept of a Medical Procedure" in 28(4) Journal of Medical Ethics, pp. 249-254 ISSN: 0306-6800
2002 Alasdair Maclean, "Beyond Bolam and Bolitho" in 5 Medical Law International, pp. 205-230 ISSN: 0968-5332
2001 Alasdair Maclean, "Crossing the Rubicon on the Human Rights Ferry" in (5) Modern Law Review, pp. 775-794. ISSN: 0026-7961
2000 Alasdair Maclean, "The Human Rights Act 1998 and the Individual's Right to Treatment" in 4 Medical Law International, pp. 245-276
2000 Alasdair Maclean, "Now you see it, now you don't: consent and the legal protection of autonomy" in 17 Journal of Applied Philosophy, pp. 277-288 ISSN 0264-3758