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Lindsey Brown LLB. PhD.
Recent Publications
- Brown Lindsey (2008) The Role of Medical Experts in Shaping Disability Law In: Arguing About Disability, ed. by Kristiansen, k., Shakespeare, T. and Vehmas, S.. Routledge, London, chap. 11, pp. 169-185.
- Brown Lindsey, Dixon-Woods Mary, and Parker Michael (2008) Whose Interest? UK Newspaper Reporting of Use of Medical Records for Research Journal of Health Services Research, 13(3):140-145.
| Contact address | The Ethox Centre, Dept of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Oxford, Badenoch Building, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF |
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| College | St Cross College |
Lindsey is working on the VOTES project. This project aims to develop a validated Grid-based resource to provide an infrastructure for efficient recruitment, data collection and management, study administration and coordination in large-scale randomised trials and observational studies. Lindsey will be focusing on the ethical implications of the relationship between public interest and informed consent in epidemiological research on patient records. Lindsey will take responsibility for establishing and servicing the VOTES Ethical and Legal Advisory Board; carrying out qualitative research with key stakeholders to identify ethical issues and concerns; and carrying out literature-based and philosophical research on the ethical and regulatory dimensions of the relationship between public interest and informed consent in research on medical records.
Lindsey is also involved teaching the medical students at the University of Oxford. She is responsible for designing and teaching a course exploring disability issues. This challenges common perceptions of disability and disabled people within the media, the medical profession and sociology; the role of the medical profession in relation to disabled people and disability law including discrimination law and social security law.
Lindsey did her law degree (LLB) at the University of Southampton and continued her legal studies there where she completed and passed a PhD in May 2006. Her thesis entitled ‘The Prevention of Disabled Lives through the use of Reproductive Genetic Technologies’ explored the expressivist nature of prenatal testing from a social model of disability perspective.
Lindsey’s research interests are in health care law; the regulation of reproductive genetic technologies; the regulation of health care professionals; the law of consent; bioethics; medical ethics; disability discrimination law; disability rights/studies; education law; and human rights.
Lindsey has also worked as a researcher in the House of Commons; and as a researcher for the Disability Rights Commission. She has made speeches in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords on protection against disability discrimination in higher education. Lindsey was also invited to 10 Downing Street to celebrate ‘excellence in higher education’ with the Prime Minister Tony Blair.
