Derek Morgan

Issues in Medical Law and Ethics (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Thirty years ago, English jurist Patrick Devlin wrote: "Is it not a pleasant tribute to the medical profession that by and large it has been able to manage its relations with its patients ... without the aid of lawyers and law makers".

Medical interventions at the beginnings and the endings of life have rendered that assessment dated if not defeated.

This book picks up some of the most important of those developments and reflects on the legal and social consequences of this metamorphosis over the past ten years, and will be of interest to students of law, sociology and ethics who want a considered and critical introduction to, and reflection on, key issues in these pivotal moments of human life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135340988
• Artikelnr.: 38454265

Autorenporträt

Derek Morgan

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Medical Law, Tragic Choices and the Risk Society; Chapter 1 What Is
Medical Law?; Chapter 2 Medical Law and the Land of Metamorphoses; Chapter
3 Biomedical Diplomacy: Tragic Choices and the Risk Society; Part 2 Some
Language Questions; Chapter 4 Health Rights, Ethics and Justice: The
Opportunity Costs of Rhetoric; Chapter 5 Feminisms' Accounts of
Reproductive Technology 1 In writing of 'feminisms', I do so in the sense
implied by Margaret Davies in her illuminating analysis, Asking the Law
Question, 1994, Sydney: LBC, p 172ff. Throughout this essay I have followed
my customary practice of referring to and citing from only materials which
I have to hand in my study when I write. Each reference in support of a
proposition should, then, be regarded only as representative or emblematic
of literature which could have been cited. Glaring omissions from my
citations might charitably be understood in this light; more likely, in
fact, they are based on ignorance. The usual suspects have not read this
essay; therefore, the usual caveat is omitted; Chapter 6 Where Do I Own My
Body?(And why?); Part 3 Intros: Entrances and Arrivals; Chapter 7 The Legal
Status of the Embryo and the Fetus; Chapter 8 Legal And Ethical Dilemmas Of
Fetal Sex Identification And Gender Selection; Part 4 Attempts and Failures
in Medical Law the Case of Genetics and Risk Society; Chapter 9 The
Troubled Helix: Legal Aspects of the New Genetics; Chapter 10 After
Genetics; Part 5 Outros: Exits And DePartures; Chapter 11 Tragic Choices
and Modern Death: Some Bland Reflections; Chapter 12 Odysseus and the
Binding Directive: Only a Cautionary Tale? *This Chapter was originally
drafted as a paper for the First National Palliative Care Conference,
Reading, September 1993. Versions of it have benefited from the critical
Visiting Researcher at Det Retsvidenskabelige Institut C, University of
Copenhagen. I am grateful to Joseph Lookofsky, Head of the Institute, and
Linda Nielsen for their kindnesses to me as their guest. It needs hardly be
stated that the usual caveat applies. But I will; it does;