The concept of reproductive health promises to play a crucial role in improving health care provision and legal protection for women around the world. This is an authoritative introduction to and defence of the concept, which though internationally endorsed is still contested by conservative agencies. The authors are leading authorities on reproductive medicine, women's health, human rights, medical law and bioethics: they integrate their disciplines to provide an accessible but comprehensive picture. They analyse cases from different countries and cultures, and suggest options for resolution. The aim is to equip readers to fashion solutions in their own health care circumstances, compatibly with ethical and human rights principles.
By:
Rebecca J. Cook ( Faculty of Law University of Toronto),
Bernard M. Dickens (,
Faculty of Law,
University of Toronto),
Mahmoud F. Fathalla (,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology,
Assiut University,
Egypt)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 242mm,
Width: 162mm,
Spine: 35mm
Weight: 930g
ISBN: 9780199241323
ISBN 10: 0199241325
Series: Issues in Biomedical Ethics
Pages: 582
Publication Date: 01 May 2003
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword 1: Introduction and Overview I: Reproductive and Sexual Health: Medical, Ethical, and Legal Principles2: 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: Reproductive and Sexual Health: Application of Medical, Ethical, and Legal PrinciplesA: OVERVIEW B: CASE STUDIES: FROM PRINCIPLE TO PRACTICE 1: Female genital cutting (circumcision/mutilation) 2: An adolescent girl seeking sexual and reproductive health care 3: Sexual assault and emergency contraception 4: Hymen reconstruction 5: A request for medically assisted reproduction 6: Involuntary female sterilization 7: Counselling and caring for an HIV positive woman 8: HIV drug research and testing 9: Responding to a request for pregnancy termination 10: Prenatal and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis for risk of dysgenic inheritance 11: Sex selection abortion 12: Treating a woman with an incomplete abortion 13: Confidentiality and unsafe abortion 14: Domestic violence 15: A maternal death Part III: Reproductive Health and Sexual Health: Data, Basic Documents, and Sources Index
Reviews for Reproductive Health and Human Rights: Integrating Medicine, Ethics, and Law
...a useful and comprehensive book for all who are involved or interested in reproductive health matters. It enables ethicists and lawyers to increase their knowledge of the more practical aspects of reproductive health, while allowing health care providers and health activists a closer look at the law which regulates their field of action. * Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights *
