Human rights and healthcare / Elizabeth Wicks.

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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:xxi, 291 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: human rights in healthcare
  • A right to treatment? the allocation of resouces in the National Health Service
  • Ensuring quality healthcare: an issue of rights or duties?
  • Autonomy and consent in medical treatment
  • Treating incompetent patients: beneficence, welfare and rights
  • Medical confidentiality and the right to privacy
  • Property right in the body
  • Medically assisted conception and a right to reproduce?
  • Termination of pregnancy: a conflict of rights
  • Pregnancy and freedom of choice
  • The right to life at the end of life
  • The law and ethics of assisted dying: is there a right to die?