Medical Law and Ethics

Contents: Negligence/Consent: From informed consent to patient choice: a new protected interest, Marjorie Maguire Schultz; Informed consent to medical treatment, Gerald Robertson; Historical evolution and modern implications of concepts of consent to and refusal of medical treatment in the law of trespass, Danuta Mendelson; Medical paternalism, Allen Buchanan. Reproduction: The morality of abortion, Ronald Dworkin; Abortion law: is consensual reform possible?, Sheila A.M. McLean; Compulsory sterilization and castration, David W. Meyers; Regulating the reproduction business?, Margaret Brazier; The maternal-fetal dyad: exploring the 2-patient obstetric model, Susan S. Mattingley; The creation of fetal rights: conflicts with women's constitutional rights to liberty, privacy and equal protection, Dawn E. Johnson; She's going to die: the case of Angela C., George J. Annas; Unwanted pregnancy: a case of retroversion?, J.K. Mason. Human Experimentation and Research: Ethics and clinical research, Henry K. Beecher; A report from New Zealand: an unfortunate experiment, Alastair V. Campbell; Research and experimentation, Ian Kennedy. Death and Dying: Some reflections on the problem of advance directives, personhood and personal identity, Helga Kuhse; 2nd thoughts on living wills, John A. Robertson; After the Patient Self-determination Act: the need for empirical research on advance directives, Joanne Lynne and Joan M. Teno; Decisions at the end of life: guided by communities of patients, Linda L. Emanuel and Ezekiel J. Emanuel; Are advance directives really the answer? And what was the question?, Ann Sommerville; Euthanasia in the Netherlands: sliding down the slippery slope?, John Keown; Assisted suicide in the Netherlands: the Chabot case, John Griffiths; Not striving to keep alive, Jonathan Glover; Name index.