Mason Institute Investigates

On this very special episode of the  Mason Institute  podcast series we celebrate the seminal textbook,  Mason and McCall Smith's Law and Medical Ethics , which was born and nurtured here at  Edinburgh Law School. Forty years ago Professor Ken Mason and Dr Alexander McCall Smith developed the idea for a textbook that would combine their disciplines in medicine and law, and...

Welcome back for another episode of the Mason Institute Investigates podcast. In this episode, Dr Katherine Wade, Dr Kirsty Horsey and Dr Zaina Mahmoud talks about their project called “Children’s Voices in Surrogacy Law”. 

Welcome back for another episode of the Mason Institute Investigates podcast. In this episode Professor Jean McHale from Birmingham Law School and Director of the Centre of Health Law, Science and Policy at the University of Birmingham; and Dr Laura Noszlopy from the University of Birmingham’s School of Social Policy, discuss their Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded...

The description for this episode is: Welcome back for another episode of the Mason Institute Investigates podcast. In this episode, our guest is Professor Jean McHale, healthcare lawyer and Director of the Centre of Health Law, Science and Policy at the University of Birmingham. Professor McHale talks about the main themes of the regulation of cosmetic surgery explored in her book co-authored...

Welcome back for another episode of Mason Institute Investigates. In this episode Dr Piyush Pushkar and Dr Louise Tomkow from the University of Manchester talk about their research on clinician-led evidence-based activism (CLEBA), a form of activism that utilises the clinical authority of doctors to challenge various political issues concerning healthcare.

Welcome to a new season of the Mason Institute Investigates podcast. Starting off this season, we have Dr Ilke Turkmendag, Senior Lecturer in Law, Innovation and Society from the University of Newcastle. In this episode, Dr Turkmendag talks her recent research into longevity protocols and the ethics of healthy ageing

Leyla Noury from the Edinburgh Law School shares the best parts of Just Emergencies; a podcast produced by Rebecca Richards from the Edinburgh Law School. The Just Emergencies podcast series is the result of a Wellcome Seed Award Project called “Vulnerability and justice in global health emergency regulation: developing future ethical models”.

Welcome to the fifth episode of the Mason Institute Investigates podcast. This episode's guest is Professor Jonathan Michaels, ex-NHS consultant in vascular surgery and now Honorary Professor of Clinical Decision Science at the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield. In this episode, Professor Michaels talks about evidence-based decision making in medicine. 

Welcome to the fourth episode of the Mason Institute Investigates podcast. This episode's guest is  Dr Sarah Devaney  (University of Manchester). Dr Devaney and Professor Anne-Maree Farrell draw on their backgrounds as previous lawyers with clinical negligence experience to discuss reforms targeting costs of clinical negligence claims and their implications for patient safety. 

This episode's guest is Upeka de Silva, the Policy Officer for the national charity Compassion in Dying. Upeka talks to us about the Care Quality Commission's (CQC) review into DNACPR decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the role Compassion in Dying had in the CQC's report, as well as the trends and problems surrounding DNACPR decision-making before and during the pandemic d...

Welcome back for our second episode of the Mason Institute Investigates podcast. Today's guest is Dr Alex Mullock (University of Manchester). Dr Mullock discusses with Professor Anne-Maree Farrell (Edinburgh Law School) about her research into non-fatal surgical harm caused by bad apple surgeons and the potential role of criminal law in addressing these harms. This podcast is a joint producti...

This is the first episode of the Mason Institute Investigates podcast. Professor Anne-Maree Farrell (Edinburgh Law School) is joined by Professor Mary Donnelly (University College Cork) to discuss Covid-19 vaccination programmes in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The podcast is also part of their work with the Public Health, Ethics and Law Research Network (PHELN), an acade...