Medical Law and Moral Rights

by Carl Wellman

Book Overview

Medical Law and Moral Rights discusses live issues arising in modern medical practice. Do patients undergoing intolerable irremediable suffering have a moral right to physician-assisted suicide? Ought they to have a comparable legal right? Do the moral duties of a mother to care for and not abuse her child also apply to her fetus? Ought fetuses to be given legal rights requiring pregnant women to submit to medical treatment without...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048169534
• ISBN13: 9789048169535
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"