title: Wilfred Fish lecture.
abstract: It is a great honour to be invited to deliver this lecture in memory of Sir Wilfred Fish, first President of the General Dental Council. I am only too well aware of my unfitness for the task: my experience of dentistry is limited to the dental chair; my knowledge of dental law is virtually nil. I trust that Sir Wilfred would not disapprove. His contribution to dentistry was enormous; his labours ensured that dentistry received both the independent recognition it merits and its own regulatory framework, freed from any sort of subservience to medicine.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, Manchester School of Law, University of Manchester. Shirley.Tiffany@man.ac.uk
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brazier
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008318:Malpractice / Q000145:classification / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D028743:Professional Misconduct / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D013218:State Dentistry / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D013222:State Medicine / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D035502:Trust; D006113:United Kingdom