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The Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN)

Professor Jo Bridgeman

Professor of Healthcare Law and Feminist Ethics, Sussex Law School, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Email: j.c.bridgeman@sussex.ac.uk

Profile

Jo Bridgeman is Professor of Healthcare Law and Feminist Ethics at the University of Sussex where she teaches on modules including Perspectives on Healthcare Law; Contemporary Issues in Healthcare Law; Child Law; Tort. Jo’s research adopts a critical feminist perspective informed by and developing the feminist ethics of care in consideration of parental, professional and state responsibilities to children. Jo has published widely on the medical treatment of children, including: the care of children with complex needs; parental responsibility for children undergoing treatment for cancer; withholding/withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from a child. Her most recent book is Medical Treatment of Children and the Law: Beyond Parental Responsibilities (Routledge, 2020).

Research

Publications

Parental Responsibility, Young Children and Healthcare Law (2008); Medical Treatment of Children and the Law: Beyond Parental Responsibilities (2020)

Expertise

Children's medical treatment and the law; parental and professional responsibilities to children; feminist perspectives on law
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