Readings in Comparative Health Law and Bioethics (Carolina Academic Press Law CA

by Jost, Timothy S.

• ISBN13: 9780613923651
• ISBN10: 0613923650
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: San Val

Table of Contents

Introduction
Acknowledgments
The Right to Health and Its Implementation	p. 3
The Right to Health in International Law	p. 3
The Right to Health in Constitutional Law	p. 13
The Organization of National Health Care Systems	p. 18
Perspectives on Health Care Systems	p. 29
The Role of Legal Institutions in the Allocation and Rationing of Health Care Resources	p. 49
Removing Barriers to the Exercise of the Right to Health: Access to Transplantable Organs	p. 85
The Rights of Patients in Relationship with Health Care Professionals and Institutions	p. 101
Patients' Rights	p. 101
The Right to be Free from Medical Negligence	p. 113
The Right to Consent to Treatment	p. 145
Rights to Control Over Patient Information	p. 189
The Right to Complain	p. 226
The Patient's Right to Self-Determination and Competing Considerations	p. 243
Abortion	p. 243
Assisted Reproduction	p. 272
The Right to Die	p. 298
Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia	p. 326
The Rights of the Individual and the Interests of Society	p. 363
Public Health Law: Legal Approaches to HIV/AIDS	p. 363
Research Involving Human Subjects	p. 377
Index	p. 393
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