Human rights and healthcare - Wicks, Elizabeth, LL. M. (Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2007)
Introduction: human rights in healthcare -- A right to treatment? the allocation of resouces in the National Health Service -- Ensuring quality healthcare: an issue of rights or duties? -- Autonomy and consent in medical treatment -- Treating incompetent patients: beneficence, welfare and rights -- Medical confidentiality and the right to privacy -- Property right in the body -- Medically assisted conception and a right to reproduce? -- Termination of pregnancy: a conflict of rights -- Pregnancy and freedom of choice -- The right to life at the end of life -- The law and ethics of assisted dying: is there a right to die?
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-282) and index
Keywords: Human Rights -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United Kingdom; Legislation, Medical -- United Kingdom; Bioethical Issues -- United Kingdom; Jurisprudence -- United Kingdom; Medical laws and legislation; Human rights; Medical ethics