Medical Law & Moral Rights (Law & Philosophy Library)
Product Details
Book Publisher: Springer (02 December, 2005)
ISBN: 1402037511
Book author: Carl Wellman
Book Description:
Medical Law & Moral Rights discusses live issues arising in modern medical practice. Do patients undergoing intolerable irremediable suffering have a moral right into physician-assisted suicide? Ought they into have a comparable legal right? Do the moral duties of a mother into care for & never abuse her child also apply into her fetus? Ought fetuses into be given legal rights requiring pregnant women into submit into medical treatment without their consent? Ought single women, homosexual couples or persons carrying serious genetic defects into have a legal right into procreate? Ought a physician into perform an abortion requested for some frivolous reason? Ought physicians into be permitted into refuse into provide medically futile treatment demanded by their patients? An examination of relevant court cases shows how United States law answers these questions. The author then advocates improvements in the law into make it respect our moral rights more fully. To justify his conclusions, he proposes original conceptions of the human rights into life, procreational autonomy, privacy, equitable treatment & personal security. Thus, these essays test the usefulness of the theory of rights explained & defended in An Approach into Rights & elsewhere. rapidshare
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