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AUTHOR
Ga Pennisi
Interdisciplinary dynamics and generic conventions: the case of Clinical Ethics Committees
In recent years, Clinical Ethics Committees (CECs) have become increasingly istitutionalised by way of a growing belief that they play an important role in successfully helping health care professionals to address ethical dilemmas. The majority of members have a medical or nursing background, with an increasing number of legal members, lay, and religious representation, and discuss a variety of issues that might arise in clinical settings, from Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment and Do Not Resuscitate Orders, to Advance Directives and Confidentiality, to name just a few. In this regard, the UK Clinical Ethics Network (UKCEN) was established in 2001 to provide support for the growing numb…
Theory and Practice of Legislation Journal in Volume 2, Number 2, November 2014.
This special issue of The Theory and Practice of Legislation presents one of the outcomes of the project launched at the Sir William Dale Centre by Prof. Helen Xanthaki and Dr. Giulia Adriana Pennisi in 2013 and entitled Legislative Drafting and Language. The projects investigates the crossroad between legislative drafting and language/linguistics with the aim to open a new agenda: the use of teachings from the discipline of linguistics in applications useful and relevant to legislative drafting. An example of the results gained thus far are the two workshops on “Legislative Drafting and Language” that took place at the IALS in June 2013 and June 2014 respectively, and witnessed the partici…