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The Human Body and Law: Second Edition (Edinburgh Law and Society Series)
	Author: David Meyers Publisher: Stanford University Press Category: Book List Price: ~~$70.00~~ Buy Used: $2.30 as of 11/21/2009 03:32 PST details You Save: $67.70 (97%) New (3) Used (15) from $2.30 Seller: betterworldbooks_ Media: Hardcover Edition: 2 Pages: 376 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9 Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.2 ISBN: 0804718857 Dewey Decimal Number: 344.041 EAN: 9780804718851 ASIN: 0804718857 Publication Date: April 1, 1991 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days



Editorial Reviews: Product Description In this admirably objective and lucid exposition, the author examines from a medico-legal standpoint the comparative position in various countries, particularly in the UK and the USA, of currently controversial medical procedures: voluntary sterilisation, compulsory sterilisation and castration, trans-sexualism, experimentation, transplantation, and euthanasia - few of which, if any, enjoy a settled or clearly defined place in the eyes of the law. He considers the problems from two perspectives: first, that of the individual in society and how far he himself may determine the extent of physical intrusion on his body; secondly, that of the state or society and how far it may impose or limit medical intrusion on the human body. Thus, Meyers provides a valuable account, not only of current medical attitudes, but also of relevant case and statute law as it stands at present. It is inherent in the nature of this book that it should arouse controversy and argument. There are many important questions to be debated: Has the state the right to enforce its conception of morality without showing that the behaviour it proscribes has a harmful effect on other members of society? To what extent does consent by the individual concerned insulate a surgeon from criminal liability? In connection with compulsory sterilisation, who is to judge those unfit to procreate? What is a proper definition of medical experimentation? What constitutes death? If a man has a right to live has he not an equal right to die? These are a few of the issues raised. The author has not hesitated to express his own opinions but has clearly relegated them to the summary at the end of each chapter, thereby leaving the objectivity of his main text unimpaired.

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