Medicine and the law
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Medicine and the law
（The international library of essays in law and legal theory, Areas ; 20）
Dartmouth, c1993
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Description
This work examines the relationship between medicine and the law. Among the topics it addresses are whether we own our own bodies or not; the abortion issue; parental rights; the rights of mental patients to their psychoses; in vitro fertilization; surrogacy and feminist thought; and more.
Table of Contents
- Do we own our bodies, Guido Calabresi
- controlling the costs of medical malpractice - an argument for strict hospital liability, Bruce Champman
- abortion and distortion of justice in the law, Bernard M. Dickens
- the modern function and limits of parental rights, Bernard M. Dickens
- Kenyan jurisprudence - the answer to western regulation of "in-vitro fertilization", Roy C. Howell
- the right of the mental patient to his psychosis, Joseph Jacob
- liberalism, republicanism and the abortion controversy, Gary C. Leedes
- an essay on surrogacy and feminist thought, Joan Mahoney
- a "dignitary tort" as a bridge between the idea of informed consent and the law of informed consent, Alan Meisel
- the ethics and economics of enforcing contracts of surrogate motherhood, Richard A. Posner
- a market for babies?, J. Robert S. Pritchard
- rethinking (m)otherhood - feminist theory and state regulation of pregnancy
- the theoretical relationship between law and psychiatry, David N. Weisstub
- a contractual analysis of surrogate motherhood and a proposed solution, Stephen G. York.
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