Reproductive Health and Human Rights: Integrating Medicine, Ethics and Law, by Rebecca J. Cook, Bernard M. Dickens and Mahmoud F. Fathalla

Summary Table of Contents

Foreword

1. Introduction and Overview

PART I: REPRODUCTIVE AND SEXUAL HEALTH: MEDICAL, ETHICAL AND LEGAL PRINCIPLES
 
2. Reproductive and Sexual Health

3. Health Care Systems

4. Ethics

5. Legal Origins and Principles

6. Human Rights Principles

7. Implementation of Legal and Human Rights Principles

PART II: REPRODUCTIVE AND SEXUAL HEALTH: APPLICATION OF MEDICAL, ETHICAL AND LEGAL PRINCIPLES

A. Overview   
B. Case Studies: From Principle to Practice

  1. Female genital cutting (circumcision/mutilation) 
  2. An adolescent girl seeking sexual and reproductive health care 
  3. Sexual assault and emergency contraception 
  4. Hymen reconstruction 
  5. A request for medically assisted reproduction 
  6. Involuntary female sterilization 
  7. Counselling and caring for an HIV positive woman 
  8. HIV drug research and testing 
  9. Responding to a request for pregnancy termination 
  10. Prenatal and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis for risk of dysgenic inheritance 
  11. Sex selection abortion 
  12. Treating a woman with an incomplete abortion 
  13. Confidentiality and unsafe abortion 
  14. Domestic violence 
  15. A maternal death

PART III: REPRODUCTIVE AND SEXUAL HEALTH: DATA, BASIC DOCUMENTS AND SOURCES

  1. a) Country Data on Selected Reproductive Health Indicators
    b) Female Genital Cutting (FGC): Estimated Prevalence
    c) Abortion Estimates
    1. Global and Regional Annual Estimates of Incidence of and Mortality due to Unsafe Abortion, 1995-2000 
    2. Measures of Induced Abortion and Hospitalization for Abortion Complications for  Selected Latin American Countries 
    3. Young Women Hospitalized for Abortion Complications 
  2. Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects (World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki, amended 2000)
  3. Table of Human Rights Treaties and UN Conference Documents 
  4. Chart: Human Rights Relating to Reproductive and Sexual Health 
  5. States Parties to Human Rights Treaties 
  6. Human Rights Treaty Committees: General Recommendations/Comments
    1. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, General Recommendation 19: Violence against Women (1992)
    2. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, General Recommendation 24: Women and Health (1999)
    3. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment 14: The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health (2000)
    4. Human Rights Committee, General Comment 28: Equality of Rights between Men and Women (2000)
    5. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, General Recommendation 25: Gender Related Dimensions of Racial Discrimination (2000)
  7. Summary of the International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights (1996)
  8. Sample Application to Petition a Human Rights Treaty Body 
  9. Table of Legal Cases: National, Regional, and International Tribunals 
  10. Select Bibliography by Chapter
  11. Annotated Listing of Relevant Websites

 International Reproductive & Sexual Health Law Programme pages:
Main page | Events: Lectures, Workshops & Symposia | Health Equity & Law Clinic
Information Resources | Internships | Legal Advisory & Advocacy Work | Listserve
Professional Training Opportunities | Publications | Scholarships | Teaching & Curriculum