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Human rights and healthcare [electronic resource] / Elizabeth Wicks.

By: Wicks, Elizabeth, 1973-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2007Description: xxi, 291 p. ; 24 cm.Other title: Human rights and health care.Subject(s): Medical laws and legislation | Human rights | Medical ethicsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Introduction: human rights in healthcare -- A right to treatment? the allocation of resouces in the National Health Service -- Ensuring quality healthcare: an issue of rights or duties? -- Autonomy and consent in medical treatment -- Treating incompetent patients: beneficence, welfare and rights -- Medical confidentiality and the right to privacy -- Property right in the body -- Medically assisted conception and a right to reproduce? -- Termination of pregnancy: a conflict of rights -- Pregnancy and freedom of choice -- The right to life at the end of life -- The law and ethics of assisted dying: is there a right to die?
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-282) and index.

Introduction: human rights in healthcare -- A right to treatment? the allocation of resouces in the National Health Service -- Ensuring quality healthcare: an issue of rights or duties? -- Autonomy and consent in medical treatment -- Treating incompetent patients: beneficence, welfare and rights -- Medical confidentiality and the right to privacy -- Property right in the body -- Medically assisted conception and a right to reproduce? -- Termination of pregnancy: a conflict of rights -- Pregnancy and freedom of choice -- The right to life at the end of life -- The law and ethics of assisted dying: is there a right to die?

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.