Human Rights and Healthcare
1st Edition
Published on 27. July 2007
314 pages
978-1-84731-371-3 (ISBN)
Description
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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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-84731-371-3 (9781847313713)
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Elizabeth Wicks
Human Rights and Healthcare
Book
07/2007
Hart Publishing
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Dr Elizabeth Wicks is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Birmingham and a member of the Management Group of the University's Institute of Medical Law. She is the author of The Evolution of a Constitution: Eight Key Moments in British Constitutional Law (Hart, 2006) and has written on various aspects of medical law, public law and human rights.
Content
1 Introduction: Human Rights in Healthcare
2 A Right to Treatment? The Allocation of Resources in the National Health Service
3 Ensuring Quality Healthcare: An Issue of Rights or Duties?
4 Autonomy and Consent to Medical Treatment
5 Treating Incompetent Patients: Beneficence, Welfare and Rights
6 Medical Confidentiality And The Right To Privacy
7 Property Rights in the Body
8 Medically Assisted Conception and a Right to Reproduce?
9 Termination of Pregnancy: A Conflict of Rights
10 Pregnancy and Freedom of Choice
11 The Right to Life at the End of Life
12 The Law and Ethics of Assisted Dying: Is There a Right to Die?
2 A Right to Treatment? The Allocation of Resources in the National Health Service
3 Ensuring Quality Healthcare: An Issue of Rights or Duties?
4 Autonomy and Consent to Medical Treatment
5 Treating Incompetent Patients: Beneficence, Welfare and Rights
6 Medical Confidentiality And The Right To Privacy
7 Property Rights in the Body
8 Medically Assisted Conception and a Right to Reproduce?
9 Termination of Pregnancy: A Conflict of Rights
10 Pregnancy and Freedom of Choice
11 The Right to Life at the End of Life
12 The Law and Ethics of Assisted Dying: Is There a Right to Die?
