Medical Law and Ethics

✍ Scribed by Sheila A.M. McLean

• Publisher: Dartmouth/Ashgate
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 602
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This title was first published in 2002.The wide range of essays contained within this volume present contemporary thinking on the legal and ethical implications surrounding modern medical practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Introduction
PART I NEGLIGENCE/CONSENT
1 From Informed Consent to Patient Choice: A New Protected Interest
2 Informed Consent to Medical Treatment
3 Historical Evolution and Modern Implications of Concepts of Consent to, and Refusal of, Medical Treatment in the Law of Trespass
4 Medical Paternalism
PART II REPRODUCTION
5 The Morality of Abortion
6 Abortion Law: Is Consensual Reform Possible?
7 Compulsory Sterilisation and Castration
8 Regulating the Reproduction Business?
9 The Maternal-Fetal Dyad: Exploring the Two-Patient Obstetric Model
10 The Creation of Fetal Rights: Conflicts with Women's Constitutional Rights to Liberty, Privacy, and Equal Protection
11 She's Going to Die: The Case of Angela C
12 Unwanted Pregnancy: A Case of Retroversion?
PART III HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION AND RESEARCH
13 Ethics and Clinical Research
14 A Report from New Zealand: An "Unfortunate Experiment"
15 Research and Experimentation
PART IV DEATH AND DYING
16 Some Reflections on the Problem of Advance Directives, Personhood, and Personal Identity
17 Second Thoughts on Living Wills
18 After the Patient Self-Determination Act: The Need for Empirical Research on Formal Advance Directives
19 Decisions at the End of Life: Guided by Communities of Patients
20 Are Advance Directives Really the Answer? And What was the Question?
21 Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Sliding Down the Slippery Slope?
22 Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands: The Chabot Case
23 Not Striving to Keep Alive
Name Index