The legitimacy of medical treatment : : what role for the medical exception? / / edited by Sara Fovargue and Alexandra Mullock.

• Superior document: Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• Author: Fovargue, Sara
• TeilnehmendeR: Fovargue, Sara, 1971-; Mullock, Alexandra.
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Biomedical law and ethics library.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.; Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access pdf under a Creative Commons Attribution-non commercial-no derivatives 3.0 license.

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-therapeuti...