Research Catalog

Title

Reproductive health and human rights : integrating medicine, ethics, and law / Rebecca J. Cook, Bernard M. Dickens, and Mahmoud F. Fathalla.

Author

Cook, Rebecca J.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Dickens, Bernard M., 1937-
• Fathalla, Mahmoud F.

Description

xxvii, 554 pages; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Issues in biomedical ethics

Uniform Title

Issues in biomedical ethics.

Subjects

• Human Rights
• International Cooperation
• Human reproduction > Moral and ethical aspects
• Reproductive Medicine > legislation & jurisprudence
• Developing Countries
• Women's Rights
• Human reproductive technology > Moral and ethical aspects
• Medical ethics
• Reproductive Medicine > ethics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.

ISBN

• 0199241325 (alk. paper)
• 0199241333 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003270259

OCLC

• ocm50999501
• SCSB-8877966

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries