Reproductive health and human rights : integrating medicine, ethics, and law by Cook, Rebecca J, Dickens, Bernard M., 1937-; Fathalla, Mahmoud F instant download

Reproductive health and human rights : integrating medicine, ethics, and law by Cook, Rebecca J, Dickens, Bernard M., 1937-; Fathalla, Mahmoud F instant download

xxvii, 554 pages ; 25 cm, 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 introduction to and defence of the concept, which, although internationally endorsed, is still contested by conservative agencies, Includes bibliographical references (pages 526-531) and index, Part I. Medical, ethical, and legal principles. 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 -- Part II. From principle to practice. 1. Overview -- 2. Female genital cutting (circumcision/mutilation) -- 3. An adolescent girl seeking sexual and reproductive health care -- 4. Sexual assault and emergency contraception -- 5. Hymen reconstruction -- 6. A request for medically assisted reproduction -- 7. Involuntary female sterilization -- 8. Counselling and caring for an HIV-positive woman -- 9. HIV drug research and testing -- 10. Responding to a request for pregnancy termination -- 11. Prenatal and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis for risk of dysgenic inheritance -- 12. Sex-selection abortion -- 13. Treating a woman with incomplete abortion -- 14. Confidentiality and unsafe abortion -- 15. Domestic violence -- 16. A maternal death -- Part III. Data and sources. 1. Reproductive health data -- 2. World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki: ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects -- 3. Human rights treaties and UN conference documents -- 4. Human rights relating to reproductive and sexual health -- 5. States parties to human rights treaties -- 6. Human rights treaty committees: general recommendations/comments -- 7. Summary of the international guidelines on HIV/AIDS and human rights (1996) -- 8. Sample application to petition a human rights treaty body -- Annotated table of cases…