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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, Rebecca J., author.

Dickens, Bernard M., 1937- author.

Fathalla, Mahmoud F., author.

Series:

Issues in biomedical ethics.

Issues in biomedical ethics Reproductive health and human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reproductive health--Moral and ethical aspects.

Reproductive health.

Human reproductive technology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human reproductive technology.

Human reproduction--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human reproduction.

Medical ethics.

Human rights.

International cooperation.

Women--Health and hygiene.

Women.

Reproductive Health.

Ethics.

Women's Rights.

Women's Health.

Human Rights.

Medical Subjects:

Reproductive Health.

Ethics.

Women's Rights.

Women's Health.

Human Rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 554 pages).

Other Title:

Integrating medicine, ethics, and law

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The concept of reproductive health promises to play a crucial role in improving health care provision and legal protection for women around the world. This is an introduction to and defence of the concept, which, although internationally endorsed, is still contested by conservative agencies.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

0-19-169690-0

0-19-924132-5