1st Edition

Medical Use of Human Beings Respect as a Basis for Critique of Discourse, Law and Practice

By Austen Garwood-Gowers Copyright 2020
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

Whilst activities like transplantation and medical research have typically been considered on a discrete basis, they are also actually part of a broader phenomenon of medical means being employed to make use of human beings. This book is the first ever systematic critique of such medical use of the human being as a whole. It is divided into two parts. The first part considers what... Read more

Part 1: The case for respect in the context of medical use of the human being









1. The ethical case for respect as the basis for constraint.









2. Alternative ethical benchmarks









3. Human rights based constraints



Part 2: Shortfalls in constraint – three areas viewed through the lens of respect









4. Abusive warfare related medical use of human beings.









5. Solid Organ Transplantation









6. Human Tissue Research

Biography

Dr Austen Garwood-Gowers is a reader in health law and ethics at Nottingham Trent University. He is author of over 60 publications in this field, having been a dedicated teacher and scholar since the early 1990s. His more recent work has brought a new understanding of fields like transplantation and medical research, showing that they are not just interconnected but also elements of a broader phenomenon of medical means being employed to make use of human beings. He breaks more new ground in this book by subjecting this broader phenomenon of medical use of human beings to its first ever systematic critique.