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Inalienable rights : the limits of consent in medicine and the law / Terrance McConnell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McConnell, Terrance C., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights.
- Informed consent (Medical law)--United States.
- Informed consent (Medical law).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Terrance McConnell distinguishes between rights and specific inalienable rights as applied to medicine and the law. The main difference, he asserts, is that the possessor of an inalienable right cannot permit others to encroach on that right.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; ONE: The Nature of Inalienable Rights; TWO: The Moral Foundations of Inalienable Rights; THREE: The Inalienable Right of Conscience: A Madisonian/Jeffersonian Argument; FOUR: The Right of Informed Consent and Inalienability; FIVE: The Inalienable Right to Life and Its Implications for Voluntary Euthanasia; SIX: Assisted Suicide and the Inalienable Right to Life; SEVEN: Human Organs and Inalienablility; EIGHT: Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-165) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028547-8
- 0-19-773059-0
- 1-280-83422-6
- 0-19-535068-5
- OCLC:
- 252664684
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