Wicks, Elizabeth,  LL. M. <br/><br/>
Human rights and healthcare / 
 Human rights and health care 
Elizabeth Wicks 
 - Oxford ;  Portland, Or. :  Hart Pub.,  2007 
 - xxi, 291 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-282) and index 
<br/><br/>Introduction: human rights in healthcare -- A right to treatment? the allocation of resouces in the National Health Service -- Ensuring quality healthcare: an issue of rights or duties? -- Autonomy and consent in medical treatment -- Treating incompetent patients: beneficence, welfare and rights -- Medical confidentiality and the right to privacy -- Property right in the body -- Medically assisted conception and a right to reproduce? -- Termination of pregnancy: a conflict of rights -- Pregnancy and freedom of choice -- The right to life at the end of life -- The law and ethics of assisted dying: is there a right to die? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781841135809 (pbk.)  RM185.08 1841135801 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008-613070 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human Rights--legislation & jurisprudence--United Kingdom<br/>Legislation, Medical--United Kingdom<br/>Bioethical Issues--United Kingdom<br/>Jurisprudence--United Kingdom<br/>Medical laws and legislation<br/>Human rights<br/>Medical ethics