Human rights and healthcare

Human rights and healthcare / Elizabeth Wicks.

Almost all issues traditionally taught under a "medical law" label have significant human rights issues inherent within them. This book looks at medical law from a human rights perspective, including established fundamental rights issues such as: the right to life; the right to respect for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wicks, Elizabeth, 1973-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2007.
Subjects:
Medical laws and legislation.
Human rights.
Medical ethics.
Bioethics.
LAW > Medical Law & Legislation.
Bioethics
Human rights
Medical ethics
Medical laws and legislation
Medizinische Ethik
Menschenrecht
Medizin
Rechtsprechung
Mensenrechten.
Gezondheidsrecht.
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: human rights in healthcare
  • A right to treatment? the allocation of resources in the National Health Service
  • Ensuring quality healthcare: an issue of rights or duties?
  • Autonomy and consent in medical treatment
  • Treating incompetent patients: beneficence, welfare and rights
  • Medical confidentiality and the right to privacy
  • Property rights in the body
  • Medically assisted conception and a right to reproduce?
  • Termination of pregnancy: a conflict of rights
  • Pregnancy and freedom of choice
  • The right to life at the end of life
  • The law and ethics of assisted dying: is there a right to die?

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