Intersections: Women on Law, Medicine and Technology
eBook - ePub

Intersections: Women on Law, Medicine and Technology

  1. 246 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Intersections: Women on Law, Medicine and Technology

About this book

First published in 1997, this volume explores how we live in a society which is developing beyond human experience and comprehension – fast. Advances in technology and medicine are profoundly affecting the manner of human living from the beginning through to the end of life. These advances present exciting and demanding challenges to law-makers, policy-makers and healthcare providers, who make decisions about genetics, human reproduction, competence, medical treatment priorities and dying. They also compel us to pay attention to human rights. This international collection of essays combines the thoughts and ideas of women scholars writing about these complex developments and aims at provoking debate and dissension as well as an opportunity for reflection. The writers explore a range of common themes in different areas and provide a coherent framework for law and policy-making, to serve as a foundation for the challenges ahead.

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2019
eBook ISBN
9780429787737
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Law Theory & Practice

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Preface
  9. Dedication Page
  10. 1. Hippocrates: Dead or Alive?
  11. 2. 'It's Not Society That's the Problem, It's Women's Bodies': A Historical View of Medical Treatment of Women
  12. 3. Female and Disabled: A Human Rights Perspective on Law and Medicine
  13. 4. The Interaction Between Family Planning Policies and the Introduction of New Reproductive Technologies
  14. 5. Reproductive Autonomy and Reproductive Technology: Gender, Deviance and Infertility
  15. 6. Gamete Donation, Reproductive Technology and the Law
  16. 7. Life After Death? Legal and Ethical Considerations of Maintaining Pregnancy in Brain Dead Women
  17. 8. Letting Die or Assisting Death: How Should the Law Respond to the Patient in a Persistent Vegetative State?
  18. 9. Gender and Equity: Emerging Issues in Australian Clinical Drug Trial Regulatory Policies
  19. 10. The Science of Biotechnology: Present, Past and Future Quagmires
  20. 11. Dissecting Medical Power
  21. Index