| Description |
xxiii, 577 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
International library of essays in law and legal theory. Second series |
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International library of essays in law and legal theory. Second series.
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| Contents |
1. From Informed Consent to Patient Choice: A New Protected Interest / Marjorie Maguire Shultz -- 2. Informed Consent to Medical Treatment / Gerald Robertson -- 3. Historical Evolution and Modern Implications of Concepts of Consent to, and Refusal of, Medical Treatment in the Law of Trespass / Danuta Mendelson -- 4. Medical Paternalism / Allen Buchanan -- 5. The Morality of Abortion / Ronald Dworkin -- 6. Abortion Law: Is Consensual Reform Possible? / Sheila A. M. McLean -- 7. Compulsory Sterilisation and Castration / David W. Meyers -- 8. Regulating the Reproduction Business? / Margaret Brazier -- 9. The Maternal-Fetal Dyad: Exploring the Two-Patient Obstetric Model / Susan S. Mattingly -- 10. The Creation of Fetal Rights: Conflicts with Women's Constitutional Rights to Liberty, Privacy, and Equal Protection / Dawn E. Johnsen -- 11. She's Going to Die: The Case of Angela C / George J. Annas -- 12. Unwanted Pregnancy: A Case of Retroversion? / J. K. Mason -- 13. Ethics and Clinical Research / Henry K. Beecher -- 14. A Report from New Zealand: An "Unfortunate Experiment" / Alastair V. Campbell -- 15. Research and Experimentation / Ian Kennedy -- 16. Some Reflections on the Problem of Advance Directives, Personhood, and Personal Identity / Helga Kuhse -- 17. Second Thoughts on Living Wills / John A. Robertson -- 18. After the Patient Self-Determination Act: The Need for Empirical Research on Formal Advance Directives / Joanne Lynn and Joan M. Teno -- 19. Decisions at the End of Life: Guided by Communities of Patients / Linda L. Emanuel and Ezekiel J. Emanuel -- 20. Are Advance Directives Really the Answer? And What was the Question? / Ann Sommerville -- 21. Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Sliding Down the Slippery Slope? / John Keown -- 22. Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands: The Chabot Case / John Griffiths -- 23. Not Striving to Keep Alive / Jonathan Glover.0. How Medicati |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Medical laws and legislation.
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Medical ethics.
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| Author |
McLean, Sheila.
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| LC no. |
2001022937 |
| ISBN |
0754620034 |
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