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-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. In doing so, the book explores how the law, the medical profession, and the public interact in determining whether a new or ethically contentious procedure should be regarded as legitimate. This book will be of interest and use to researchers and students of bioethics, medical law, criminal law, and the sociology of medicine.

Table of Contents

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Transforming wrong into right: What is 'proper medical treatment'?; 3 What do we mean by 'proper' medical treatment?; 4 Papist potions and electric sex: A historical perspective on 'proper medical treatment'; 5 Moralising medicine: 'Proper medical treatment' and the role of ethics and law in medical decision-making; 6 Family perspectives on 'proper medical treatment' for people in prolonged vegetative and minimally conscious states

7 The medical exception and cosmetic surgery: Culpable doctors and harmful enhancement?8 Locating lawful abortion on the spectrum of 'proper medical treatment'; 9 Death on demand: 'Proper medical treatment'?; 10 Doctors' orders? Analysing appropriate medical treatment in mental health law; 11 The economics of 'proper medical treatment'; 12 Rationing, resource allocation, and appropriate medical treatment; 13 Comments and reflections on 'proper medical treatment': a case for coherent inconsistency; Bibliography; Index