The concept of reproductive health promises to play a crucial role in improving health care provision and legal protection for women around the world. This is an authoritative and much-needed introduction to and defence of the concept of reproductive health, which though internationally endorsed, is still contested. The authors are leading authorities on reproductive medicine, womens health, human rights, medical law, and bioethics. They integrate their disciplines to provide anaccessible but comprehensive picture. They analyse 15 cases from different countries and cultures, and explore options for resolution. The aim is to equip readers to fashion solutions in their own health care circumstances, compatibly with ethical, legal and human rights principles.
Foreword; Introduction and Overview; Reproductive and Sexual Health; Health Care Systems; Ethics; Legal Origins and Principles; Human Rights Principles; Implementation of Legal and Human Rights Principles; OVERVIEW; 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 Health and Sexual Health: Data, Basic Documents, and Sources; Index;
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