Treat Me Right: Essays in Medical Law and Ethics

Emerging problems of medicine, technology, and the law what is a medical decision? the legal and ethical implications of postcoital birth control a husband, a wife and an abortion the doctor, the pill and the 15-year-old girl the moral status of the embryo ethics in clinical decision making - the care of the very-low-birth-weight baby "R". v. "Arthur Reb" and the severely disabled new-born baby the patient on the Clapham omnibus the law and ethics of informed consent and randomized controlled trials further thoughts on liability for non-observance of the Provisions of the Human Tissue Act 1961 the donation and transplantation of kidneys - should the law be changed? transsexualism and single-sex marriage the technological imperative and its application in health care the check-out - a humane death? the law relating to the treatment of the terminally ill the legal effect of requests by the terminally ill and aged not to receive further treatment from doctors switching off life-support machines - the legal implications. Bibliography. Index.