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Contemporary Issues in Law, Medicine and Ethics

Sheila A.M. McLean

ISBN13: 9781855215863

ISBN: 1855215861

Published: March 1997

Publisher: Routledge

Country of Publication: UK

Format: Hardback

Price: Out of print

This work presents a range of issues in law, medicine and ethics. Subjects covered include: professional ethics and business ethics; health rights, ethics and justice; refusal of consent to medical treatment of children; sterilization and minors; and maternal/foetal conflict.

Subjects:: Medical Law and Bioethics

Contents:: Professional ethics and business ethics, Robin Downie; health rights, ethics and justice - the opportunity costs of rhetoric, Derek Morgan; if you know what's good for you - refusal of consent to medical treatment by children, Sarah Elliston; private decisions and public scrutiny - sterilization and minors in Australia and England, Kerry Petersen; maternal/foetal conflict, defined or defused?, Jane Mair; wrongful life and wrongful birth, Patricia Beaumont; contemporary issues in organ transplantation, Ken Mason; transplantation and the ""nearly dead"" - the case of elective ventilation, Sheila McLean; reason, law and medicine - anencephalics as organ donors, John Porter; advance directives/living wills, Chris Docker; confidentiality and the human genome project - a prophecy for conflict?, Iona Brown and Phillippa Gannon; biotechnology and intellectual property - a marriage of inconvenience?, Graeme Laurie.