Reproductive Health and Human Rights: Integrating Medicine, Ethics, and Law

by Rebecca J. Cook, Bernard M. Dickens, Mahmoud F. Fathalla

Overview

Rebecca Cook, Bernard Dickens, and Mahmoud Fathalla, leading international authorities on reproductive medicine, human rights, medical law, and bioethics, integrate their disciplines to provide an accessible but comprehensive introduction to reproductive and sexual health. They analyze fifteen case-studies, representing a wide array of recurrent problems, focusing particularly on resource-poor settings. Approaches to resolution are considered at clinical and health system levels. They also consider the kinds of social change that would relieve the underlying conditions of reproductive health dilemmas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199241323
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/19/2003
Series:	Issues in Biomedical Ethics
Pages:	582
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.30(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

University of Toronto

Assiut University

Table of Contents

Foreword1. Introduction and Overview2. I: Reproductive and Sexual Health: Medical, Ethical, and Legal Principles3. Health Care Systems4. Ethics5. Legal Origins and Principles6. Human Rights Principles7. Implementation of Legal and Human Rights PrinciplesA. Part II: Reproductive and Sexual Health: Application of Medical, Ethical, and Legal PrinciplesB. CASE STUDIES: FROM PRINCIPLE TO PRACTICE1. Female genital cutting (circumcision/mutilation)2. An adolescent girl seeking sexual and reproductive health care3. Sexual assault and emergency contraception4. Hymen reconstruction5. A request for medically assisted reproduction6. Involuntary female sterilization7. Counselling and caring for an HIV positive woman8. HIV drug research and testing9. Responding to a request for pregnancy termination10. Prenatal and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis for risk of dysgenic inheritance11. Sex selection abortion12. Treating a woman with an incomplete abortion13. Confidentiality and unsafe abortion14. Domestic violence15. A maternal deathPart III: Reproductive Health and Sexual Health: Data, Basic Documents, and SourcesIndex