The legitimacy of medical treatment : : what role for the medical exception? / / edited by Sara Fovargue and Alexandra Mullock.
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...
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| Superior document: | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Biomedical law and ethics library.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
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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