Research Catalog

Title

Readings in comparative health law and bioethics / [edited by] Timothy Stoltzfus Jost.

Publication

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors

Jost, Timothy S.

Description

xviii, 398 p.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Carolina Academic Press law casebook series

Uniform Title

Carolina Academic Press law casebook series.

Subject

• Bioethics
• Bioethics
• Ethics, Medical
• Legislation, Medical
• Medical ethics
• Medical laws and legislation, International
• Medical laws and legislation
• Patients > Civil rights
• Patients > Legal status, laws, etc

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. The Right to Health and Its Implementation. A. The Right to Health in International Law. B. The Right to Health in Constitutional Law. C. The Organization of National Health Care Systems. D. Perspectives on Health Care Systems. E. The Role of Legal Institutions in the Allocation and Rationing of Health Care Resources. F. Removing Barriers to the Exercise of the Right to Health: Access to Transplantable Organs -- Ch. 2. The Rights of Patients in Relationship with Health Care Professionals and Institutions. A. Patients' Rights. B. The Right to be Free from Medical Negligence. C. The Right to Consent to Treatment. D. Rights to Control Over Patient Information. E. The Right to Complain -- Ch. 3. The Patient's Right to Self-Determination and Competing Considerations. A. Abortion. B. Assisted Reproduction. C. The Right to Die. D. Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia -- Ch. 4. The Rights of the Individual and the Interests of Society. A. Public Health Law: Legal Approaches to HIV/AIDS. B. Research Involving Human Subjects.

ISBN

0890896151

LCCN

^^2001088038

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Harvard Library