Reproductive Health and Human Rights: Integrating Medicine, Ethics, and Law
Rebecca J. Cook, Bernard M. Dickens, and Mahmoud F. Fathalla
Abstract
The concept of reproductive health promises to play a crucial role in improving health care provision and legal protection for women around the world. This book is an authoritative and much-needed introduction to and defence of the concept of reproductive health, which though internationally endorsed, is still contested. Chapters integrate related disciplines to provide a comprehensive picture. They analyse fifteen cases from different countries and cultures, and explore options for resolution. The aim is to equip readers to fashion solutions in their own health care circumstances, compatibly ... More
The concept of reproductive health promises to play a crucial role in improving health care provision and legal protection for women around the world. This book is an authoritative and much-needed introduction to and defence of the concept of reproductive health, which though internationally endorsed, is still contested. Chapters integrate related disciplines to provide a comprehensive picture. They analyse fifteen cases from different countries and cultures, and explore options for resolution. The aim is to equip readers to fashion solutions in their own health care circumstances, compatibly with ethical, legal and human rights principles.
Keywords:
reproductive health,
ethics,
human rights,
health care provision,
women,
legal protection,
medical law
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2003 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199241323 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199241323.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Rebecca J. Cook, Author
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Bernard M. Dickens, Author
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Mahmoud F. Fathalla, Author
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Assiut University, Egypt
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