Books in the The International Library of Medicine, Ethics and Law series

This volume collects, in convenient form, influential articles analysing the key issues surrounding children, medicine and the law. Issues examined include the implications of assisted reproduction for resultant children, neonatal intensive care, health care and HIV testing of newborn children.

Evolving capabilities in the spheres of both organ and tissue transplantation, coupled with rapidly-escalating demand, assert consistent and critical pressure on our ethical and legal principles and frameworks. This work brings together seminal papers analyzing such matters in the context of an important area of clinical practice.

Examines issues in death and consent: the nature of death, brain death and the uses of the dead and decision-making at the end of life, including the use of advance directives and decision-making about the continuation, discontinuation, or futility of treatment for competent and incompetent patients and children.

While advances in reproductive medicine such as IVF, GIFT and ZIFT have enabled thousands of couples worldwide to have children, they have also raised a plethora of ethical, philosophical and legal questions. This is a collection of essays addressing these issues.

This volume features a collection of some of the most important articles on the social, ethical and legal implications of a variety of problems caused by AIDS. The wide-ranging articles were selected on the basis of three criteria: theoretical depth; impact on debate; and social relevance.

Explores the complex issues of personhood, prenatal life and reproductive rights, international perspectives on the regulation of abortion, health professionals and the provision of abortion services, and prenatal diagnosis and abortion. Belinda Bennett is from The University of Sydney, Australia.

As medical technologies and treatments develop, the legal and ethical implications of medicine are being called into question. This collection brings together the seminal papers written on the nexus between mental illness, its treatment and its relationship to the law. It also provides an informative introduction summarizing the area.

This book shows just how wide-ranging concern has become, ranging from regulation to cloning, with the fear of discrimination in between. Part One begins with a range of general discussions of about the genetic enterprise followed by consideration of specific questions. Part Two then addresses cutting edge debates in genetics.