| Description |
xxvii, 554 pages ; 25 cm. |
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Issues in biomedical ethics
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Issues in biomedical ethics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 526-531) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Medical, ethical, and legal principles. 1. Introduction and overview -- 2. Reproductive and sexual health -- 3. Health care systems -- 4. Ethics -- 5. Legal origins and principles -- 6. Human rights principles -- 7. Implementation of legal and human rights principles -- Part II. From principle to practice. 1. Overview -- 2. Female genital cutting (circumcision/mutilation) -- 3. An adolescent girl seeking sexual and reproductive health care -- 4. Sexual assault and emergency contraception -- 5. Hymen reconstruction -- 6. A request for medically assisted reproduction -- 7. Involuntary female sterilization -- 8. Counselling and caring for an HIV-positive woman -- 9. HIV drug research and testing -- 10. Responding to a request for pregnancy termination -- 11. Prenatal and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis for risk of dysgenic inheritance -- 12. Sex-selection abortion -- 13. Treating a woman with incomplete abortion -- 14. Confidentiality and unsafe abortion -- 15. Domestic violence -- 16. A maternal death -- Part III. Data and sources. 1. Reproductive health data -- 2. World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki: ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects -- 3. Human rights treaties and UN conference documents -- 4. Human rights relating to reproductive and sexual health -- 5. States parties to human rights treaties -- 6. Human rights treaty committees: general recommendations/comments -- 7. Summary of the international guidelines on HIV/AIDS and human rights (1996) -- 8. Sample application to petition a human rights treaty body -- Annotated table of cases -- Select bibliography by chapter -- Annotated listing of relevant websites. |
| Subject |
Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Human reproduction -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Human reproduction -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Medical ethics.
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Medical ethics. |
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Assisted reproductive technology. |
| Added Author |
Dickens, Bernard M., 1937-
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Fathalla, Mahmoud F.
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| ISBN |
0199241333 paperback alkaline paper |
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0199241325 alkaline paper |
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