Professor Sara Fovargue

Books

• Fovargue S (2011) Xenotransplantation and Risk. Cambridge University Press.

Edited books

• (Ed.) () Leading Works in Health Law and Ethics. Routledge.
• Fovargue S & Mullock A (Ed.) () The Legitimacy of Medical Treatment. Routledge.

Journal articles

• Devaney S, Mullock A, Chloe Romanis E, Fovargue S, Miola J, Clough B & Heywood R (2025) Memories of Margot. Medical Law International, 25(2), 79-87.
• Clough B, Fovargue S, Heywood R & Miola J (2024) Editorial: Reproductive health, choice, and justice. Medical Law Review, 32(4), 441-443.
• Redhead C, Frith L, Chiumento A, Fovargue S & Draper H (2024) Using symbiotic empirical ethics to explore the significance of relationships to clinical ethics: findings from the Reset Ethics research project. BMC Medical Ethics, 25. View this article in WRRO
• Clough B, Fovargue S, Heywood R & Miola J (2022) Editorial. Medical Law Review, 30(4), 581-583.
• Redhead C, Fovargue S, Frith L, Chiumento A, Draper H & Baines P (2022) Relationships, rights and responsibilities: (re)viewing the NHS constitution for the post-vaccination ‘new normal'. Medical Law Review. View this article in WRRO
• Fovargue S & Neal M (2022) UK pharmacists' experiences and perceptions of conflict between personal ethical commitments and professional obligations, as set out in professional guidance. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. View this article in WRRO
• Fovargue S (2021) In whose best interests? Childbirth choices and other health decisions. Law Quarterly Review, 137, 604-629.
• Fovargue S, Miola J, Clough B & Heywood R (2021) Editorial. Medical Law Review, 29(1), 1-2. View this article in WRRO
• Frith L, Draper H, Fovargue S, Baines P, Redhead C & Chiumento A (2021) Neither ‘crisis light’ nor ‘business as usual’: considering the distinctive ethical issues raised by the contingency and reset phases of a pandemic. American Journal of Bioethics, 21(8), 34-37. View this article in WRRO
• Chiumento A, Baines P, Redhead C, Fovargue S, Draper H & Frith L (2021) Which ethical values underpin England's National Health Service reset of paediatric and maternity services following COVID-19: a rapid review. BMJ Open, 11(6). View this article in WRRO
• Baines P, Draper H, Chiumento A, Fovargue S & Frith L (2020) COVID-19 and beyond: the ethical challenges of resetting health services during and after public health emergencies. Journal of Medical Ethics, 46(11), 715-716. View this article in WRRO
• Fovargue S (2020) Anticipating issues with capacitous pregnant women: United Lincolnshire NHS Hospitals Trust v CD [2019] EWCOP 24 and Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM) v R [2020] EWCOP 4. Medical Law Review, 28(4), 781-793. View this article in WRRO
• Neal M, Fovargue S & Smith SW (2019) Guest editorial. New Bioethics, 25(3), 203-206. View this article in WRRO
• Neal M & Fovargue S (2019) Is conscientious objection incompatible with healthcare professionalism?. New Bioethics, 25(3), 221-235. View this article in WRRO
• Fovargue S & Hogg LC (2017) Mine, yours, ours? Autonomy and the removal and use of organs and tissues before the European Court in Petrova v. Latvia and Elberte v. Latvia. Journal of Trafficking and Human Exploitation, 1(2), 143-160. View this article in WRRO
• Neal M & Fovargue S (2016) Conscience and agent-integrity : a defence of conscience-based exemptions in the health care context. Medical Law Review, 24(4), 544-570. View this article in WRRO
• Fovargue S & Bennett R (2016) What role should public opinion play in ethico-legal decision making? The example of selecting sex for non-medical reasons using preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Medical Law Review, 24(1), 34-58. View this article in WRRO
• Fovargue S & Neal M (2015) 'IN GOOD CONSCIENCE': CONSCIENCE-BASED EXEMPTIONS AND PROPER MEDICAL TREATMENT. Medical Law Review, 23(2), 221-241. View this article in WRRO
• Fovargue S, McGuinness S, Mullock A & Smith S (2015) CONSCIENCE AND PROPER MEDICAL TREATMENT. Medical Law Review, 23(2), 173-176. View this article in WRRO
• Fovargue S & Ost S (2013) Does the theoretical framework change the legal end result for mature minors refusing medical treatment or creating self-generated pornography?. Medical Law International, 13(1), 6-31. View this article in WRRO
• Fovargue S (2013) Doctrinal incoherence or practical problem? Minor parents consenting to their offspring's medical treatment and involvement in research in England and Wales. Child and Family Law Quarterly, 25(1), 1-18.
• FOVARGUE S (2013) The (Ab)use of Those with No Other Hope?. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 22(2), 181-191. View this article in WRRO
• Fovargue S (2013) N. Vermeulen, S. Tamminen and A. Webster (eds.), Bio-Objects: Life in the 21st Century (Ashgate: Surrey, 2012), ISBN 9781409411789 (hardback), £55, 240 pp.. European Journal of Health Law, 20(2), 231-239.
• Biggs H, Ost S, Fovargue S & Miola J (2012) A TRIBUTE TO PROFESSOR DAVID PRICE, 1954-2012. Medical Law Review, 20(2), 189-190.
• Biggs H, Ost S, Fovargue S & Miola J (2012) Editorial. Medical Law Review, 20(1), 6-7.
• Fovargue S & Miola J (2011) Key changes in the regulation of assisted reproduction introduced by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008. Clinical Ethics, 6(4), 162-166.
• Fovargue S & Miola J (2011) The European Union Directive on Organ Donation and Transplantation. Clinical Ethics, 6(3), 117-121.
• Fovargue S & Miola J (2011) Treating those who are mentally disordered under the Mental Health Act 1983: Part 2. Clinical Ethics, 6(2), 64-67.
• Fovargue S & Miola J (2011) Assessing and detaining those who are mentally disordered under the Mental Health Act 1983 and Mental Capacity Act 2005: Part 1. Clinical Ethics, 6(1), 11-14.
• Fovargue S & Miola J (2010) The best interests principle and providing treatment for adults without capacity in England and Wales. Clinical Ethics, 5(4), 180-183.
• Fovargue S & Miola J (2010) The legal status of the fetus. Clinical Ethics, 5(3), 122-124.
• Fovargue S & Ost S (2010) WHEN SHOULD PRECAUTION PREVAIL? INTERESTS IN (PUBLIC) HEALTH, THE RISK OF HARM AND XENOTRANSPLANTATION. Medical Law Review, 18(3), 302-329. View this article in WRRO
• Fovargue S & Miola J (2010) One step forward, two steps back? The GMC, the common law and 'informed' consent. Journal of Medical Ethics, 36(8), 494-497. View this article in WRRO
• Fovargue S & Miola J (2010) Research and adults without capacity. Clinical Ethics, 5(2), 63-66.
• Fovargue S & Miola J (2010) Shifting the focus. Clinical Ethics, 5(1), 1-2.
• Fovargue S & Miola J (2010) How much information is ‘enough’?. Clinical Ethics, 5(1), 13-15.
• Fovargue S & Ost S (2009) A plea for precaution with public health: the xenotransplantation example. Clinical Ethics, 4(3), 119-124.
• Newson AJ (2009) Clinical Ethics Committee case 5: Should we discharge our vulnerable patient to a family who seem unable to look after her?. Clinical Ethics, 4(1), 6-11.
• Fovargue S (2008) Why Donor Insemination Requires Developments in Family Law—The Need for New Definitions of Parenthood. Medical Law Review, 16(3), 458-464.
• Fovargue S (2007) Editorial. Clinical Ethics, 2(1), 22-22.
• Fovargue S (2007) Autonomy, decision-making, and role of the law in protecting the 'vulnerable'. Clinical Ethics, 2(2), 55-55.
• Fovargue S (2006) Editorial. Clinical Ethics, 1(2), 85-85.
• Fovargue S (2006) Editorial. Clinical Ethics, 1(3), 138-138.
• Brazier M & Fovargue S (2006) A brief guide to the Human Tissue Act 2004. Clinical Ethics, 1(1), 26-32.
• Fovargue S & Brazier M (2006) Editorial. Clinical Ethics, 1(1), 21-21.
• Fovargue S (2005) Consenting to bio-risk: xenotransplantation and the law. Legal Studies, 25(3), 404-430. View this article in WRRO
• Fovargue S (2005) Review: Rights, Duties and the Body: Law and Ethics of the Maternal-Fetal Conflict. Medical Law Review, 13(1), 131-135.
• Fovargue S (2005) A Leap of Faith? Sanctioning Xenotransplant Clinical Trials. Liverpool Law Review, 26(2), 125-147. View this article in WRRO
• Flynn M, Keywood K & Fovargue S (2003) Warning: health ‘choices’ can kill. The Journal of Adult Protection, 5(1), 30-34.
• Fovargue S (2001) . Res Publica, 7(2), 183-187.
• Foster S (1998) Reeves v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [1998] 2 all ER 381. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 20(4), 421-437.
• Fovargue S (1998) Policing pregnancy: implications of the attorney-general's reference (no. 3 of 1994). Medical Law Review, 6(3), 265-296. View this article in WRRO
• Fovargue S (1998) Medical law. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 20(4), 427-437. View this article in WRRO
• Fovargue S, Chiumento A, Draper H, Frith L & Redhead C () Delivering compassionate NHS healthcare: a qualitative study exploring the ethical implications of resetting NHS maternity and paediatric services following the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Science and Medicine.
• Fovargue S, Thom R, Fox M, Cronin A, Ayres D, Cooper D, Dark J, Parent B, Ravanan R, Dorling A , Locke J et al () An update on the ethical, legal, and technical challenges of translating xenotransplantation. Journal of Medical Ethics.
• Scott HM, Braybrook D, Harðardóttir D, Ellis-Smith C, Harding R, Anderson AK, Bayly J, Bate L, Bluebond-Langner M, Box D , Bristowe K et al () Implementation of child-centred outcome measures in routine paediatric healthcare practice: a systematic review. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 21(1).
• Fovargue S () The Law’s Response to Pregnancy and Childbirth: Consistency, Conflict or Compromise?. The Modern Law Review, 65(2), 290-303.
• Fovargue S () 'OH PICK ME, PICK ME'--SELECTING PARTICIPANTS FOR XENOTRANSPLANT CLINICAL TRIALS. Medical Law Review, 15(2), 176-219. View this article in WRRO
• Fovargue S () Xenotransplantation--Law and Ethics. Medical Law Review, 14(3), 434-442.

Chapters

• Fovargue S, Redhead C, Anna C, Draper H & Frith L (2024) Relationships were a casualty when pandemic ethics and everyday clinical ethics collided In Redhead C & Smallman M (Ed.), Governance, Democracy and Ethics in Crisis-Decision-making The Pandemic and Beyond Manchester: Manchester University Press.
• Fovargue S & Purshouse C (2023) Introduction In Fovargue S & Purshouse C (Ed.), Leading Works in Health Law and Ethics (pp. 1-8). London: Routledge.
• Fovargue S & Purshouse C (2023) Introduction, Leading Works in Health Law and Ethics (pp. 1-8).
• Fovargue S (2019) Preserving the therapeutic alliance: Court intervention and experimental treatment requests In Goold I, Herring J & Auckland C (Ed.), Parental Rights, Best Interests and Significant Harms: Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Children Post-Great Ormond Street Hospital v Gard (pp. 153-176). Oxford: Hart. View this article in WRRO
• Fovargue S (2017) Xenotransplantation In den Exter A (Ed.), European Health Law (pp. 419-441). Maklu-Uitgevers
• Fovargue S (2017) Ethical Judgment on St George's Healthcare NHS Trust v S [1998] 3 All ER 673 In Smith S, Coggon J, Hobson C, Huxtable R, McGuinness S, Miola J & Neal M (Ed.), Ethical Judgments: Re-writing Medical Law (pp. 235-240). Oxford: Hart.
• Fovargue S (2017) Judgment 2-St George's Healthcare NHS Trust v S [1999] Fam 26, ETHICAL JUDGMENTS: RE-WRITING MEDICAL LAW (pp. 235-240).
• Fovargue S & Mullock A (2016) Introduction, The Legitimacy of Medical Treatment: What Role for the Medical Exception? (pp. 1-11).
• Fovargue S & Miola J (2016) Are we still ‘policing pregnancy’?, Pioneering Healthcare Law: Essays in Honour of Margaret Brazier (pp. 243-254). View this article in WRRO
• Brazier M & Fovargue S (2016) Transforming wrong into right : What is 'proper medical treatment'? (pp. 12-31).
• Fovargue S & Mullock A (2015) Introduction In Fovargue S & Mullock A (Ed.), The Legitimacy of Medical Treatment: What Role for the Medical Exception? (pp. 1-11). Routledge
• Fovargue S (2014) Exposing the limits of the law? Biotechnological challenges to global health In Freeman M, Sarah H & Belinda Bennett (Ed.), Law and Global Health (pp. 394-418). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Fovargue S (2012) Bioethical conflict and developing biotechnologies: is protecting individual and public health from the risks of xenotransplantation a matter for the (criminal) law?, Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law (pp. 140-156). Cambridge University Press
• Fovargue S (2011) La investigación embrionaria humana en Reino Unido: ¿una isla en Europa? In Garcia San Jose D (Ed.), Marco Jurídico Eurpeo Relativo a la Investigación Biomédica en Transferencia Nuclear y Reprogramación Celular (pp. 157-176). Thomson Reuters
• Fovargue S () Integrating feminisms' perspectives into the legal curriculum, Leading Works in Health Law and Ethics (pp. 148-163). Taylor & Francis
• Fovargue S & Purshouse C () Introduction, Leading Works in Health Law and Ethics (pp. 1-8). Taylor & Francis
• Fovargue S () Integrating feminisms’ perspectives into the legal curriculum: Feminist Perspectives on Health Care Law In Fovargue S & Purshouse C (Ed.), Leading Works in Health Law and Ethics Routledge

Reports

• Fovargue S & Neal M (2021) Pharmacists' perception of ethical conflict and professional guidance in light of the revised General Pharmaceutical Council Standards of Conduct, Ethics and Performance View this article in WRRO
• Fovargue S & Neal M (2021) Research Briefing: Pharmacists' perceptions of ethical conflict and professional guidance View this article in WRRO

Preprints

• Redhead CAB, Frith L, Chiumento A, Fovargue S & Draper H (2023) Using symbiotic empirical ethics to explore the significance of relationships to clinical ethics: findings from the Reset Ethics research project, Research Square Platform LLC.