Reproductive Health and Human Rights

TRAMA

Rebecca Cook, Bernard Dickens, and Mahmoud Fathalla, leading international authorities on reproductive medicine, human rights, medical law, and bioethics, integrate their disciplines to provide an accessible but comprehensive introduction to reproductive and sexual health. They analyze fifteen case-studies, representing a wide array of recurrent problems, focusing particularly on resource-poor settings. Approaches to resolution are considered at clinical and health system levels. They also consider the kinds of social change that would relieve the underlying conditions of reproductive health dilemmas.

NOTE EDITORE

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 is an authoritative and much-needed introduction to and defence of the concept of reproductive health, which though internationally endorsed, is still contested. The authors are leading authorities on reproductive medicine, women's health, human rights, medical law, and bioethics. They integrate their disciplines to provide an accessible but comprehensive picture. They analyse 15 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.

SOMMARIO

1 - Introduction and Overview 2 - Reproductive and Sexual Health 3 - Health Care Systems 4 - Ethics 5 - Legal Origins and Principles 6 - Human Rights Principles 7 - Implementation of Legal and Human Rights Principles A - OVERVIEW B - CASE STUDIES: FROM PRINCIPLE TO PRACTICE 1 - Female genital cutting (circumcision/mutilation) 2 - An adolescent girl seeking sexual and reproductive health care 3 - Sexual assault and emergency contraception 4 - Hymen reconstruction 5 - A request for medically assisted reproduction 6 - Involuntary female sterilization 7 - Counselling and caring for an HIV positive woman 8 - HIV drug research and testing 9 - Responding to a request for pregnancy termination 10 - Prenatal and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis for risk of dysgenic inheritance 11 - Sex selection abortion 12 - Treating a woman with an incomplete abortion 13 - Confidentiality and unsafe abortion 14 - Domestic violence 15 - A maternal death

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199241323
• Collana: Issues in Biomedical Ethics
• Dimensioni: 242 x 35.2 x 162 mm Ø 930 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: numerous tables
• Pagine Arabe: 582