Family Rights: Family Law and Medical Advance [Hardcover]

Elaine Sutherland (Author), Alexander McCall Smith (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0748602046 | ISBN-13: 978-0748602049 | Publication Date: May 20, 1991

Medicine has made strides in the area of human reproduction and this book asks what the implications of this are for conventional notions of "the family" and how parental rights are affected. It examines the growing legal and ethical issues of family rights in the making of treatment decisions and in using the latest human reproduction techniques. Medico-legal experts from Britain and North America deal with all aspects of family law, including surrogacy and its implications for the family, new reproductive techniques (IVF, "womb-leasing") and life and death decisions concerning children and old people. There are chapters on "fetal abuse" and the control of the pregnant woman, sterilization and other forms of contraception, the rights of children in medical treatment decisions and the psychological and family consequences of genetically transmissable diseases.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press (May 20, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0748602046
• ISBN-13: 978-0748602049
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,784,059 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Alexander McCall Smith was born in what is now Zimbabwe and taught law at the University of Botswana. He is now Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He has written more than fifty books, including a number of specialist titles, but is best known for The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, which has achieved bestseller status on four continents. In 2004 he was awarded British Book Awards Author of the Year and Booksellers Association Author of the Year. He lives in Scotland, where in his spare time he is a bassoonist in the RTO (Really Terrible Orchestra).