Human Rights and Healthcare
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Human Rights and Healthcare

  1. 314 pages
  2. English
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Human Rights and Healthcare

About this book

Human Rights and Healthcare looks at medical law from a human rights perspective. Almost all issues traditionally taught under a "medical law" label have significant human rights issues inherent within them. This book is unique in bringing those human rights implications to the fore. The rights at issue include established fundamental rights such as the right to life; the right to respect for a private life; and the right to physical integrity, as well as more controversial "rights" such as a "right to reproduce" and a "right to die". The human rights perspective of this book enables new light to be cast upon familiar medico-legal cases and issues. As such the book provides a genuine merging of human rights law and medical law and will be of value to all students and academics studying medical law, as well as to those interested in the broader issues raised by the growing human rights culture within the UK and worldwide.

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Information

Publisher
Hart Publishing
Year
2007
Print ISBN
9781841135809
eBook ISBN
9781847313713
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Medical Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. Table of Cases
  4. Table of Legislation
  5. 1Introduction: Human Rights inHealthcare
  6. I. Sources of Human Rights Law
  7. II. The Human Rights Relevant to Medical Law
  8. Recommended Further Reading
  9. 2A Right to Treatment? The Allocationof Resources in the National HealthService
  10. I. Rights, Health and Resources
  11. II. The General Rule: No Right to Treatment
  12. III. Procedural Aspects of a Right to Treatment
  13. IV. A Right to Basic Life-Sustaining Treatment?
  14. V. Conclusion
  15. Recommended Further Reading
  16. 3Ensuring Quality Healthcare: AnIssue of Rights or Duties?
  17. I. The Doctor-Patient Relationship
  18. II. The Legal Requirements of Negligence
  19. III. Non-fault Compensation: Escaping theBlame Culture
  20. IV. Conclusion
  21. Recommended further reading
  22. 4Autonomy and Consent to MedicalTreatment
  23. I. Autonomy, Consent and Choices
  24. II. The Nature of Consent
  25. III. Competent Consent
  26. IV. Informed Consent
  27. V. Conclusion
  28. Recommended Further Reading
  29. 5Treating Incompetent Patients:Beneficence,Welfare and Rights
  30. I. The Principle of Beneficence andConflicting Rights
  31. II. The Best Interests Test
  32. III. Who Decides?
  33. IV. Conclusion
  34. Recommended Further Reading
  35. 6Medical Confidentiality And TheRight To Privacy
  36. I. Rights to Privacy and Confidentiality in theMedical Context
  37. II. Exceptions to the Duty of Confidentiality:Balancing Privacy Against Other Public Interests
  38. III. Conclusion
  39. Recommended Further Reading
  40. 7Property Rights in the Body
  41. I. The Theory of Self-Ownership and theRole of Rights
  42. II. Property Rights in Human Material taken fromLiving Persons
  43. III. Property Rights and Dead Bodies
  44. IV. Conclusion
  45. Recommended further reading
  46. 8Medically Assisted Conception and aRight to Reproduce?
  47. I. The Origins of a Right to Reproduce
  48. II. Access to Treatment: A Right to Reproducein Practice?
  49. III. Assigning Parentage: Giving Legal Recognition tothe Right to Reproduce?
  50. IV. A Right to Reproduce a Healthy Child? Selectionof Embryos
  51. V. Conclusion
  52. Recommended Further Reading
  53. 9Termination of Pregnancy: A Conflictof Rights
  54. I. The Fetus
  55. II. The Mother
  56. III. The Father
  57. IV. The Medical Professionals
  58. V. Conclusion
  59. Recommended Further Reading
  60. 10Pregnancy and Freedom of Choice
  61. I. Refusal of Medical Treatment During Pregnancy
  62. II. Preventing Pre-natal Harm
  63. III. Wrongful Conception and Birth: FinancialRecompense for an Unwanted Pregnancy?
  64. IV. Conclusion
  65. Recommended Further Reading
  66. 11The Right to Life at the End of Life
  67. I. The Right to Life in Context
  68. II. The Bland Principles
  69. III. The Bland Principles in Practice
  70. IV. Equal Rights to Life: The Conjoined Twins Case
  71. V. Conclusion
  72. Recommended Further Reading:
  73. 12The Law and Ethics of AssistedDying: Is There a Right to Die?
  74. I. The Criminal Law Prohibition on Assisted Dying
  75. II. Life and Death: A Right to Die as a Corollary of aRight to Life?
  76. III. A Right to Die with Dignity?
  77. IV. Autonomy, Private Life and Death
  78. V. Discrimination of the Disabled: Suicide versusAssisted Suicide
  79. VI. Conclusion
  80. Recommended Further Reading
  81. Bibliography
  82. Index