ABSTRACT
Thirty years ago, English jurist Patrick Devlin wrote: "Is it not a pleasant tribute to the medical profession that by and large it has been able to manage its relations with its patients ... without the aid of lawyers and law makers".
Medical interventions at the beginnings and the endings of life have rendered that assessment dated if not defeated.
This book picks up some of the most important of those developments and reflects on the legal and social consequences of this metamorphosis over the past ten years, and will be of interest to students of law, sociology and ethics who want a considered and critical introduction to, and reflection on, key issues in these pivotal moments of human life.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |43 pages
Medical Law, Tragic Choices and the Risk Society
chapter |10 pages
What Is Medical Law?
chapter |24 pages
Medical Law and the Land of Metamorphoses
chapter |8 pages
Biomedical Diplomacy: Tragic Choices and the Risk Society
part |59 pages
Some Language Questions
chapter |16 pages
Health Rights, Ethics and Justice: The Opportunity Costs of Rhetoric
chapter |20 pages
Feminisms' Accounts of Reproductive Technology 1
chapter |22 pages
Where Do I Own My Body?(And why?)
part |47 pages
Intros: Entrances and Arrivals
chapter |22 pages
The Legal Status of the Embryo and the Fetus
part |47 pages
Attempts and Failures in Medical Law the Case of Genetics and Risk Society
chapter |24 pages
The Troubled Helix: Legal Aspects of the New Genetics
chapter |22 pages
After Genetics
part |57 pages
Outros: Exits And Departures