Inalienable rights : the limits of consent in medicine and the law / / Terrance McConnell
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| Autore: |
McConnell Terrance C
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| Titolo: |
Inalienable rights : the limits of consent in medicine and the law / / Terrance McConnell
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (185 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 174 |
| 341.481 | |
| 344.73/0412 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Human rights |
| Informed consent (Medical law) - United States | |
| Natural law | |
| Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2000. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-165) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Introduction; ONE: The Nature of Inalienable Rights; TWO: The Moral Foundations of Inalienable Rights; THREE: The Inalienable Right of Conscience: A Madisonian/Jeffersonian Argument; FOUR: The Right of Informed Consent and Inalienability; FIVE: The Inalienable Right to Life and Its Implications for Voluntary Euthanasia; SIX: Assisted Suicide and the Inalienable Right to Life; SEVEN: Human Organs and Inalienablility; EIGHT: Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Terrance McConnell distinguishes between rights and specific inalienable rights as applied to medicine and the law. The main difference, he asserts, is that the possessor of an inalienable right cannot permit others to encroach on that right. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Inalienable rights |
| ISBN: | 0-19-028547-8 |
| 0-19-773059-0 | |
| 1-280-83422-6 | |
| 0-19-535068-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824823203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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