Reproductive health and human rights : integrating medicine, ethics, and law

Cook, Rebecca J.

Reproductive health and human rights : integrating medicine, ethics, and law integrating medicine, ethics, and law / Rebecca J. Cook, Bernard M. Dickens, and Mahmoud F. Fathalla. - Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 2003. - xxvii, 554 p. ; 25 cm. - Issues in biomedical ethics .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [526]-531) and index.

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.

9780199241323 (alk. paper) 9780199241330 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2003270259

GBA2-U1164

101181092 DNLM


Human reproductive technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
Human reproduction--Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical ethics.
Reproductive Medicine--Ethics.
Developing Countries.
Human Rights.
International Cooperation.
Reproductive Medicine--Legislation & jurisprudence.
Women's Rights.
Santé de la reproduction--Aspect moral.
Reproduction humaine--Aspect moral.
Éthique médicale.
Femmes--Droits.
Femmes--Santé et hygiène.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)

RG133 / .C667

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