1st Edition
Informed Choice of Medical Services: Is the Law Just? Is the Law Just?
By Marj Milburn
Copyright 2001
140 Pages
by
Routledge
This title was first published in 2001. This work is a uniquely multi-disciplinary contribution to the existing bioethical literature on the topic of informed choice of medical services. It is also the first comprehensive bioethical text to confront the central issue of power in the clinical encounter and to argue for statutory protection of the right to informed choice. While the majority of... Read more
Contents: Informed choice of medical services: still a problem?; Informed choice: legal doctrine or ethical concept?; Medicine: beneficence or enlightened self-interest?; The clinical encounter: protecting power and privilege?; Human rights: a problem for political rationalism?; Beyond legalism: a feminist jurisprudence as a guide to law reform?; Changing the balance of power; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Marj Milburn
'Worth mentioning are the appreciable bibliographic support and the deep knowledge of important case studies, not only North-American and British but also Canadian and Australian.' Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
