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Choosing Life, Choosing Death : The Tyranny of Autonomy in Medical Ethics and Law.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (216 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847314901
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Choosing Life, Choosing DeathDDC classification:
  • 344.41041
LOC classification:
  • K3601.F67 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Prelims -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- Part 1: Principles -- 1 Autonomy: Challenging the Consensus -- 2 Other Contenders for a Voice -- 3 Whose Autonomy? -- Part 2: Before Life -- 4 Reproductive Autonomy -- 5 Abortion -- 6 Questions Raised by Reproductive Technology -- Part 3: Between Birth and Death -- 7 Confidentiality -- 8 The Law of Consent -- 9 Litigation, Rights and Duties -- 10 Medical Research on Humans -- 11 The End of Life -- Part 4: After Death -- 12 Transplantation -- 13 The Ownership of Body Parts -- 14 Epilogue -- Index.
Summary: This book surveys the main issues in medical law to assault the status of autonomy and suggest how other principles should contribute to the law.
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Prelims -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- Part 1: Principles -- 1 Autonomy: Challenging the Consensus -- 2 Other Contenders for a Voice -- 3 Whose Autonomy? -- Part 2: Before Life -- 4 Reproductive Autonomy -- 5 Abortion -- 6 Questions Raised by Reproductive Technology -- Part 3: Between Birth and Death -- 7 Confidentiality -- 8 The Law of Consent -- 9 Litigation, Rights and Duties -- 10 Medical Research on Humans -- 11 The End of Life -- Part 4: After Death -- 12 Transplantation -- 13 The Ownership of Body Parts -- 14 Epilogue -- Index.

This book surveys the main issues in medical law to assault the status of autonomy and suggest how other principles should contribute to the law.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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