TY - BOOK AU - Wicks,Elizabeth TI - Human rights and healthcare SN - 9781841135809 (pbk.) PY - 2007/// CY - Oxford, Portland, Or. PB - Hart Pub. KW - Human Rights KW - legislation & jurisprudence KW - United Kingdom KW - Legislation, Medical KW - Bioethical Issues KW - Jurisprudence KW - Medical laws and legislation KW - Human rights KW - Medical ethics N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-282) and index; 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? ER -