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Human rights and healthcare

Wicks, Elizabeth, LL. M.

Human rights and healthcare [electronic resource] Human rights and health care Elizabeth Wicks. - Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2007. - xxi, 291 p.

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?


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.





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Medical laws and legislation.
Human rights.
Medical ethics.


Electronic books.

K3601 / .W53 2007

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