Human rights and healthcare [electronic resource] / Elizabeth Wicks.

Introduction: human rights in healthcare
A right to treatment? the allocation of resouces in the National Health Service
Ensuring quality healthcare: an issue of rights or duties?
Autonomy and consent in medical treatment
Treating incompetent patients: beneficence, welfare and rights
Medical confidentiality and the right to privacy
Property right in the body
Medically assisted conception and a right to reproduce?
Termination of pregnancy: a conflict of rights
Pregnancy and freedom of choice
The right to life at the end of life
The law and ethics of assisted dying: is there a right to die?