Human Body and the Law: A Medico-Legal Study

by Robert Maynard Hutchins

In this admirably objective and lucid exposition, the author examines from a medico-legal standpoint the comparative position in various countries, particularly in the UK and the USA, of currently controversial medical procedures: voluntary sterilisation, compulsory sterilisation and castration, trans-sexualism, experimentation, transplantation, and euthanasia - few of which, if any, enjoy a settled or clearly defined place in the eyes of the law...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138525413
• ISBN13: 9781138525412
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"