The Legitimacy of Medical Treatment
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The Legitimacy of Medical Treatment

What Role for the Medical Exception?

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Legitimacy of Medical Treatment

What Role for the Medical Exception?

About this book

Whenever the legitimacy of a new or ethically contentious medical intervention is considered, a range of influences will determine whether the treatment becomes accepted as lawful medical treatment. The development and introduction of abortion, organ donation, gender reassignment, and non-therapeutic cosmetic surgery have, for example, all raised ethical, legal, and clinical issues. This book examines the various factors that legitimatise a medical procedure.

Bringing together a range of internationally and nationally recognised academics from law, philosophy, medicine, health, economics, and sociology, the book explores the notion of a treatment, practice, or procedure being proper medical treatment, and considers the range of diverse factors which might influence the acceptance of a particular procedure as appropriate in the medical context. Contributors address such issues as clinical judgement and professional autonomy, the role of public interest, and the influence of resource allocation in decision-making.

Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 3.0 license.

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Yes, you can access The Legitimacy of Medical Treatment by Sara Fovargue,Alexandra Mullock in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Diritto & Etica e responsabilità professionale nel diritto. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Notes on contributors
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 Transforming wrong into right: What is ‘proper medical treatment’?
  10. 3 What do we mean by ‘proper’ medical treatment?
  11. 4 Papist potions and electric sex: A historical perspective on ‘proper medical treatment’
  12. 5 Moralising medicine: ‘Proper medical treatment’ and the role of ethics and law in medical decision-making
  13. 6 Family perspectives on ‘proper medical treatment’ for people in prolonged vegetative and minimally conscious states
  14. 7 The medical exception and cosmetic surgery: Culpable doctors and harmful enhancement?
  15. 8 Locating lawful abortion on the spectrum of ‘proper medical treatment’
  16. 9 Death on demand: ‘Proper medical treatment’?
  17. 10 Doctors’ orders? Analysing appropriate medical treatment in mental health law
  18. 11 The economics of ‘proper medical treatment’
  19. 12 Rationing, resource allocation, and appropriate medical treatment
  20. 13 Comments and reflections on ‘proper medical treatment’: a case for coherent inconsistency
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index