Medical Use of Human Beings: Respect as a Basis for Critique of Discourse, Law and Practice

ISBN-13: 9780367726942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 204 str.

Austen Garwood-Gowers

Opis

Medical use of the human being can be described as the phenomenon of employing medical means to make use of humans individually and as a species. However, scholarly discourse has only tackled it in a fragmented way rather than as a whole. This book adroitly fills the gap.

Spis treści

Part 1: The case for respect in the context of medical use of the human being

1. The ethical case for respect as the basis for constraint.

2. Alternative ethical benchmarks

3. Human rights based constraints

Part 2: Shortfalls in constraint – three areas viewed through the lens of respect

4. Abusive warfare related medical use of human beings.

5. Solid Organ Transplantation

6. Human Tissue Research

O autorze

Dr Austen Garwood-Gowers is a reader in health law and ethics at Nottingham Trent University. He is author of over 60 publications in this field, having been a dedicated teacher and scholar since the early 1990s. His more recent work has brought a new understanding of fields like transplantation and medical research, showing that they are not just interconnected but also elements of a broader phenomenon of medical means being employed to make use of human beings. He breaks more new ground in this book by subjecting this broader phenomenon of medical use of human beings to its first ever systematic critique.