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
- Female genital cutting (circumcision/mutilation)
- An adolescent girl seeking sexual and reproductive health care
- Sexual assault and emergency contraception
- Hymen reconstruction
- A request for medically assisted reproduction
- Involuntary female sterilization
- Counselling and caring for an HIV positive woman
- HIV drug research and testing
- Responding to a request for pregnancy termination
- Prenatal and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis for risk of dysgenic inheritance
- Sex selection abortion
- Treating a woman with an incomplete abortion
- Confidentiality and unsafe abortion
- Domestic violence
- A maternal death
PART III: REPRODUCTIVE AND SEXUAL HEALTH: DATA, BASIC DOCUMENTS AND SOURCES
- a) Country Data on Selected Reproductive Health Indicators
b) Female Genital Cutting (FGC): Estimated Prevalence
c) Abortion Estimates- Global and Regional Annual Estimates of Incidence of and Mortality due to Unsafe Abortion, 1995-2000
- Measures of Induced Abortion and Hospitalization for Abortion Complications for Selected Latin American Countries
- Young Women Hospitalized for Abortion Complications
- Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects (World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki, amended 2000)
- Table of Human Rights Treaties and UN Conference Documents
- Chart: Human Rights Relating to Reproductive and Sexual Health
- States Parties to Human Rights Treaties
- Human Rights Treaty Committees: General Recommendations/Comments
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, General Recommendation 19: Violence against Women (1992)
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, General Recommendation 24: Women and Health (1999)
- Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment 14: The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health (2000)
- Human Rights Committee, General Comment 28: Equality of Rights between Men and Women (2000)
- Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, General Recommendation 25: Gender Related Dimensions of Racial Discrimination (2000)
- Summary of the International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights (1996)
- Sample Application to Petition a Human Rights Treaty Body
- Table of Legal Cases: National, Regional, and International Tribunals
- Select Bibliography by Chapter
- Annotated Listing of Relevant Websites
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