Human Rights and Healthcare.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- 1Introduction: Human Rights inHealthcare -- I. Sources of Human Rights Law -- II. The Human Rights Relevant to Medical Law -- Recommended Further Reading -- 2A Right to Treatment? The Allocationof Resources in the National HealthService -- I. Rights, Health and Resources -- II. The General Rule: No Right to Treatment -- III. Procedural Aspects of a Right to Treatment -- IV. A Right to Basic Life-Sustaining Treatment? -- V. Conclusion -- Recommended Further Reading -- 3Ensuring Quality Healthcare: AnIssue of Rights or Duties? -- I. The Doctor-Patient Relationship -- II. The Legal Requirements of Negligence -- III. Non-fault Compensation: Escaping theBlame Culture -- IV. Conclusion -- Recommended further reading -- 4Autonomy and Consent to MedicalTreatment -- I. Autonomy, Consent and Choices -- II. The Nature of Consent -- III. Competent Consent -- IV. Informed Consent -- V. Conclusion -- Recommended Further Reading -- 5Treating Incompetent Patients:Beneficence,Welfare and Rights -- I. The Principle of Beneficence andConflicting Rights -- II. The Best Interests Test -- III. Who Decides? -- IV. Conclusion -- Recommended Further Reading -- 6Medical Confidentiality And TheRight To Privacy -- I. Rights to Privacy and Confidentiality in theMedical Context -- II. Exceptions to the Duty of Confidentiality:Balancing Privacy Against Other Public Interests -- III. Conclusion -- Recommended Further Reading -- 7Property Rights in the Body -- I. The Theory of Self-Ownership and theRole of Rights -- II. Property Rights in Human Material taken fromLiving Persons -- III. Property Rights and Dead Bodies -- IV. Conclusion -- Recommended further reading -- 8Medically Assisted Conception and aRight to Reproduce? -- I. The Origins of a Right to Reproduce.

II. Access to Treatment: A Right to Reproducein Practice? -- III. Assigning Parentage: Giving Legal Recognition tothe Right to Reproduce? -- IV. A Right to Reproduce a Healthy Child? Selectionof Embryos -- V. Conclusion -- Recommended Further Reading -- 9Termination of Pregnancy: A Conflictof Rights -- I. The Fetus -- II. The Mother -- III. The Father -- IV. The Medical Professionals -- V. Conclusion -- Recommended Further Reading -- 10Pregnancy and Freedom of Choice -- I. Refusal of Medical Treatment During Pregnancy -- II. Preventing Pre-natal Harm -- III. Wrongful Conception and Birth: FinancialRecompense for an Unwanted Pregnancy? -- IV. Conclusion -- Recommended Further Reading -- 11The Right to Life at the End of Life -- I. The Right to Life in Context -- II. The Bland Principles -- III. The Bland Principles in Practice -- IV. Equal Rights to Life: The Conjoined Twins Case -- V. Conclusion -- Recommended Further Reading: -- 12The Law and Ethics of AssistedDying: Is There a Right to Die? -- I. The Criminal Law Prohibition on Assisted Dying -- II. Life and Death: A Right to Die as a Corollary of aRight to Life? -- III. A Right to Die with Dignity? -- IV. Autonomy, Private Life and Death -- V. Discrimination of the Disabled: Suicide versusAssisted Suicide -- VI. Conclusion -- Recommended Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index.

This unique book looks at medical law from a human rights perspective and will be of value to all students and academics studying medical law.

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