University of Edinburgh academics contribute to The Cambridge Handbook of Health Research Regulation

The Cambridge Handbook of Health Research Regulation is freely available online, published on 24 June 2021 by Cambridge University Press.

The publication is edited by academics of the University of Edinburgh:

• Graeme Laurie, Professorial Fellow, Edinburgh Law School
• Edward Dove, Lecturer in Health Law and Regulation, Edinburgh Law School
• Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, Lecturer and Chancellor's Fellow in Bioethics and Global Health Ethics, Edinburgh Law School
• Catriona McMillan, Senior Research Fellow in Medical Law and Ethics, Edinburgh Law School
• Emily Postan, Senior Research and Teaching Fellow in Bioethics, Edinburgh Law School
• Nayha Sethi, Chancellor’s Fellow in Data Driven Innovation, Usher Institute
• Annie Sorbie, Lecturer in Medical Law and Ethics, Edinburgh Law School

The Cambridge Handbook of Health Research Regulation is the first ever interdisciplinary handbook in the field, this vital resource offers wide-ranging analysis of health research regulation. The chapters confront gaps between documented law and research in practice, and draw on legal, ethical and social theories about what counts as robust research regulation to make recommendations for future directions. The Handbook provides an account and analysis of current regulatory tools - such as consent to participation in research and the anonymisation of data to protection participants' privacy - as well as commentary on the roles of the actors and stakeholders who are involved in human health research and its regulation. Drawing on a range of international examples of research using patient data, tissue and other human materials, the collective contribution of the volume is to explore current challenges in delivering good medical research for the public good and to provide insights on how to design better regulatory approaches.

Open Access to this title via Cambridge Core - The Cambridge Handbook of Health Research Regulation