Legal solutions to medical problems: a rights-based approach as the way forward in the ownership and end-of-life contexts
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18573/bsdj.55Keywords:
Law, ethics, end of life, ownership, rights, duties, property, legal, bodily material,Abstract
Summary:
This essay takes two contentious issues of contemporary society – end-of-life and ownership of bodily material and examines them through a legal lens.
Relevance:
In today’s litigation culture, the spheres of medicine and law increasingly overlap, sparking a need to leave the dichotomies behind and explore the symbiosis between these fields.
Take Home Messages:
On the basis of (1) consistency, (2) coherency and (3) control, it is argued that a rights terminology would helpfully organise the way we approach medical decision-making in these two contexts.
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