Medical Law and Moral Rights

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Wellman, Carl (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Σειρά: Law and Philosophy Library, 71
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Medical ethics.; Law.; Law > Philosophy.; Philosophy, general.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Law, general.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.

Medical Law and Moral Rights discusses live issue arising in modern medical practice. Do patients undergoing intolerable irremediable suffering have a moral right to physician-assisted suicide? Ought they to have a comparable legal right? Do the moral duties of a mother to care for and not abuse her...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Defining the Rights to Physician-Assisted Suicide
• Glucksberg v. Compassion
• A Legal Right to Physician-Assisted Suicide
• A Moral Right to Physician-Assisted Suicide
• The Concept of Fetal Rights
• Maternal Duties and Fetal Rights
• The Scope of the Right to Procreational Autonomy
• Possessors of the Right to Procreational Autonomy
• Medical Futility and Moral Rights.