Choosing Life, choosing death : the tyranny of autonomy in medical ethics and law / Charles Foster.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: Principles: 1.Autonomy: Challenging the Consensus --2.Other Contenders for a Voice-- Non-maleficence: Primum Non Nocere: Above All, Do No harm -- Beneficence --Justice-- Professional Integrity --Rights and Duties--3. Whose Autonomy?-- Part 2: Before Life: 4. Reproductive Autonomy --Should One Be Required to Reproduce? -- Should You Be Entitled to Have a Child?-- Applications to Adopt-- Applications by Prisoners--5.Abortion--6. Questions Raised by Reproductive Technology-- Part 3: Between Birth and Death--7. Confidentiality --What Principles Are Embodied in the Law of Confidentiality?-- From Principle to Practice: Egdell, Genetic Counselling and Axon-- W v Egdell --Genetic Counselling-- The Sue Axon Case--8. The Law of Consent--Duty to Prevent Suicide: Reeves v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis-- Autonomy Over One\'s Genitalia? R v Brown and Others --The Caesarean Section Cases-- What Do We Mean When We Say `I Want...\'?-- What is `Relevant Information\'?\'-- Patient Responsibility -- The Limits of Consent-- Incidental Findings on Operation--Consent, Biobanks and the Effect of Analysing Consent Questions in ECHR Terms--The Notion of Capacity --Best Interests and Incompetent Adults --Children--9.Litigation, Rights and Duties --10.Medical Research on Humans --11. The End of Life-- Part 4: After Death--12. Transplantation --Xenotransplantation-- Live Donor Homotransplantation-- Post-Mortem Homotransplantation --13.The Ownership of Body Parts--Tissue From the Living -- Tissue From the Living and the Dead-- Existing Holdings --Who Can Give Consent?--14. Epilogue.