Old law, new medicine : medical ethics and human rights /

McLean, Sheila,

Old law, new medicine : medical ethics and human rights / Sheila McLean. - xiii,210 pages ; 22 cm

Setting the scene -- The reproduction revolution : liberation or liability? -- Women and foetuses : whose rights? -- A women's right to choose? : law, medicine, and abortion -- Controlling fertility : the case of the mentally disabled -- The infant with disability : to treat or not to treat? -- Choosing life or death -- Controlling or conceding the future?

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Law and ethics
Medical ethics
Human rights.

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