The Troubled Pregnancy

by J.K. Mason

Book Overview

Mason looks at the legal response to those aspects of the troubled pregnancy which require or involve medico-legal intervention. The unwanted pregnancy is considered particularly in the light of the Abortion Act 1967, s.1(1)(d) and the related action for so-called wrongful birth due to faulty ante-natal care. The unexpected or uncovenanted birth of a healthy child resulting from failed sterilisation is approached through an analysis of the seminal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521850754
• ISBN13: 9780521850759
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.0"