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Treat me right : essays in medical law and ethics / Ian Kennedy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1991Edition: New editionDescription: xviii, 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0198255594
  • 9780198255598
  • 0198255586
  • 9780198255581
Other title:
  • Essays in medical law and ethics
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 344.41041
Contents:
1. Emerging Problems of Medicine, Technology, and the Law -- 2. What is a Medical Decision? -- 3. The Legal and Ethical Implications of Postcoital Birth Control -- 4. A Husband, a Wife, and an Abortion -- 5. The Doctor, the Pill, and the 15-year-old Girl -- 6. The Moral Status of the Embryo -- 7. Ethics in Clinical Decision Making: The Care of the Very-low-birth-weight Baby -- 8. R. v. Arthur, Re B., and the Severely Disabled New-born Baby -- 9. The Patient on the Clapham Omnibus -- 10. The Law and Ethics of Informed Consent and Randomized Controlled Trials -- 11. Further Thoughts on Liability for Non-observance of the Provisions of the Human Tissue Act 1961 -- 12. The Donation and Transplantation of Kidneys: Should the Law be Changed? -- 13. Transsexualism and Single-Sex Marriage -- 14. The Technological Imperative and its Application in Health Care -- 15. The Check-out: A Humane Death? -- 16. The Law Relating to the Treatment of the Terminally Ill -- 17. The Legal Effect of Requests by the Terminally Ill and Aged not to Receive Further Treatment from Doctors -- 18. Switching Off Life-Support Machines: The Legal Implications -- 19. The Woman and her Unborn Child -- 20. Patients, Doctors, and Human Rights -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Essays previously published in several journals and books between 1977 and 1991.

"First published 1988. Reprinted (new as paperback with corrections and two new essays) 1991"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-422) and index.

1. Emerging Problems of Medicine, Technology, and the Law -- 2. What is a Medical Decision? -- 3. The Legal and Ethical Implications of Postcoital Birth Control -- 4. A Husband, a Wife, and an Abortion -- 5. The Doctor, the Pill, and the 15-year-old Girl -- 6. The Moral Status of the Embryo -- 7. Ethics in Clinical Decision Making: The Care of the Very-low-birth-weight Baby -- 8. R. v. Arthur, Re B., and the Severely Disabled New-born Baby -- 9. The Patient on the Clapham Omnibus -- 10. The Law and Ethics of Informed Consent and Randomized Controlled Trials -- 11. Further Thoughts on Liability for Non-observance of the Provisions of the Human Tissue Act 1961 -- 12. The Donation and Transplantation of Kidneys: Should the Law be Changed? -- 13. Transsexualism and Single-Sex Marriage -- 14. The Technological Imperative and its Application in Health Care -- 15. The Check-out: A Humane Death? -- 16. The Law Relating to the Treatment of the Terminally Ill -- 17. The Legal Effect of Requests by the Terminally Ill and Aged not to Receive Further Treatment from Doctors -- 18. Switching Off Life-Support Machines: The Legal Implications -- 19. The Woman and her Unborn Child -- 20. Patients, Doctors, and Human Rights -- Bibliography -- Index.

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