Regulatory Futures and Medical Devices: Where Next for Europe and the United Kingdom?
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University of Birmingham
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University of Birmingham United Kingdom
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University of Birmingham United Kingdom
Abstract
The symposium in this issue of Law, Technology and Humans brings together a range of scholars looking at the broad question of where next for medical devices regulation in the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK). Initially arising out of a workshop held in September 2022,[1] our motivation for the symposium is rooted in the challenges raised by what has been a significant period of change in both the EU and the UK when it comes to medical devices regulation.
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Author Biographies
Muireann Quigley holds a Chair in Law, Medicine, and Technology at the University of Birmingham and is Principal Investigator on the Wellcome Trust funded Everyday Cyborgs 2.0 project which examines the legal and philosophical challenges arising from the joining of persons and bodies with attached and implanted medical devices. She has an interdisciplinary background which crosses medicine, ethics, and law. Professor Quigley has published on a range of topics at the intersection of law and bioethics, including reproduction, public health, the behavioural sciences, and property in the body and biomaterials. She is the author of Self-ownership, Property Rights, and the Human Body: A Legal and Philosophical Analysis, published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. She has recently been appointed to the a member of the Interim Devices Working Group, which provides independent, external expert input and advice relating to medical devices to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency in the United Kingdom.
Laura Downey is a Research Fellow in Law on the Wellcome Trust funded Everyday Cyborgs 2.0: Law’s Boundary Work and Alternative Legal Futures project. Her research interests lie in the interaction between law, technology, and society with a focus on medicine and biotechnology. Her work on the Everyday Cyborgs 2.0 project has concentrated on the shifting medical device regulatory landscape in the United Kingdom and European Union post-Brexit, and the specific legal challenges facing everyday cyborgs or integrated persons (that is, persons with attached or implanted medical devices). Before she started work on the project, Dr Downey completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh looking at the dynamics of emergence of legal concepts – specifically identity – at the nexus of law and technology.
Joseph Robert’s is a Research Fellow in Philosophy and Law on the Wellcome Trust funded Everyday Cyborgs 2.0: Law’s Boundary Work and Alternative Legal Futures project at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. His research lies at the intersection of bioethics and political philosophy. His main focus on the Everyday Cyborg 2.0 Project is on the normative and conceptual questions raised by the existence of everyday cyborgs. He aims to integrate these with the empirical components to develop a new account of everyday cyborgs in law. His second line of research focuses on recreational drug use, the value of community, and permissible uses of public space. Prior to being appointed a research fellow, Dr Roberts completed a PhD in Political Theory at the University of Manchester, where he wrote about the moral permissibility of body modification practices and taught seminars on political philosophy and democratic theory.
