Margaret Brazier
Margaret Rosetta "Margot" Brazier (née Jacobs; 2 November 1950 – 4 March 2025) was a British academic who was a professor at the University of Manchester's School of Law.[1]Margaret Jacobs was born in Preston, Lancashire on 2 November 1950. She was married to Rodney Brazier, a professor of constitutional law also at the University of Manchester.
Life and career
[edit]Brazier researched legal issues in the field of medicine, including medical ethics.[1] She was a barrister, ex-member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (1998–2001),[2] Editor of the Medical Law Review,[3] and ex-president of the Society of Legal Scholars (formerly, Society of Public Teachers of Law) (1997–1999).[4] Brazier was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2014, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[5]
She chaired a number of committees, including:
- Chair of the Animal Procedures Committee 1993–98.[6]
- Chair of Review of Surrogacy Arrangements 1996–98.[7][8]
- Chair of the Retained Organs Commission 2001–2004.[9]
- Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party on Critical Care Decisions in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine: Ethical Issues 2004–2006.[10]
Brazier wrote the first edition of her textbook Medicine, Patient and the Law in 1987.[11] The 7th edition was published in 2023,[12] along with her monograph, Law and Healing: A History of a Stormy Marriage.[13][14]
Brazier's academic work is commemorated in a special edition of the journal Medical Law Review[15] and a 2016 festschrift called Pioneering Healthcare Law: Essays in Honour of Margaret Brazier.[16]
Brazier died on 4 March 2025, aged 74.[17][18]
Recognition
[edit]- Order of the British Empire (1997).
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (1993).
- Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2007).[19]
- Queen's Counsel (honoris causa) (2008).[20]
- Fellow of the British Academy (2014).[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Staff profile, School of Law, The University of Manchester". manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ "Staff profile, School of Law, The University of Manchester". manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
- ^ "Medical Law Review, Editorial Board". Oxford Journals. Archived from the original on 28 July 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
- ^ legalscholars. "Previous Officers of The Society of Legal Scholars". Legalscholars.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
- ^ a b "British Academy announces 42 new fellows". Times Higher Education. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
- ^ "Report of the Animal Procedures Committee for 1993" (PDF). www.gov.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ^ "Health Review proposes regulation for surrogacy". BBC News. 16 October 1998. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
- ^ "[ARCHIVED CONTENT] Surrogacy: Review for health ministers of current arrangements for payments and regulation - Report of the review team : Department of Health - Publications". Webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 8 April 2010. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
- ^ "[ARCHIVED CONTENT] 6. The Retained Organs Commission : Department of Health - About us". Webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 17 February 2009. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
- ^ Nuffield Council on Bioethics (15 November 2006). "Critical care decisions in fetal and neonatal medicine: ethical issues". NCOB. Nuffieldbioethics.org. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
- ^ Brazier, Margaret (1987). Medicine, Patients and the Law (1st ed.). London: Penguin. ISBN 0140225579.
- ^ Brazier, Margaret; Cave, Emma; Heywood, Rob (2023). Medicine, Patients and the Law (7th ed.). Manchester: MUP. ISBN 9781526157171.
- ^ Brazier, Margaret (2023). Law and healing: A history of a stormy marriage. Manchester: MUP (published February 2023). ISBN 9781526129185.
- ^ McWhirter, Rebekah (23 December 2023). "Book Review: Margaret Brazier, Law and Healing: A History of a Stormy Marriage". Medical Law Review. 32 (2): 281–286.
- ^ "Special issue: Across the Spectrum of Medical Law: A Special Issue in Honour of Margaret Brazier". Medical Law Review. 20 (1): 1–186. 2012 – via OUP.
- ^ Stanton, Catherine; Devaney, Sarah; Farrell, Anne-Maree; Mullock, Alexandra (2020). Pioneering Healthcare Law: Essays in Honour of Margaret Brazier. Routledge (published 30 June 2020). ISBN 9780367597757.
- ^ "Margaret Brazier, law scholar who advised government on issues from medical consent to animal testing". The Telegraph. 18 March 2025. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
- ^ Cave, Emma; Jackson, Emily (10 March 2025). "Obituary: Professor Margaret Brazier". BioNews 1280. Archived from the original on 28 March 2025. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
- ^ "Fellow Academy of Medical Sciences". Acmedsci.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
- ^ "[ARCHIVED CONTENT] Honorary Queen's Counsel 2008 - Ministry of Justice". Webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 13 October 2010. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
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