The Legitimacy of Medical Treatment: What Role for the Medical Exception?

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Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
1 Introduction
2 Transforming wrong into right: What is ‘proper medical treatment’?
3 What do we mean by ‘proper’ medical treatment?
4 Papist potions and electric sex: A historical perspective on ‘proper medical treatment’
5 Moralising medicine: ‘Proper medical treatment’ and the role of ethics and law in medical decision-making
6 Family perspectives on ‘proper medical treatment’ for people in prolonged vegetative and minimally conscious states
7 The medical exception and cosmetic surgery: Culpable doctors and harmful enhancement?
8 Locating lawful abortion on the spectrum of ‘proper medical treatment’
9 Death on demand: ‘Proper medical treatment’?
10 Doctors’ orders? Analysing appropriate medical treatment in mental health law
11 The economics of ‘proper medical treatment’
12 Rationing, resource allocation, and appropriate medical treatment
13 Comments and reflections on ‘proper medical treatment’: a case for coherent inconsistency
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Index