Old law, new medicine : medical ethics and human rights / Sheila McLean.

London : Pandora; New York : Distributed in the USA by New York University Press, 1999.

xiii, 210 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographic references (p. [182]-202) and index

Setting the scene -- The reproduction revolution : liberation or liability? -- Women and foetuses : whose rights? -- A women's right to choose? : law, medicine, and abortion -- Controlling fertility : the case of the mentally disabled -- The infant with disability : to treat or not to treat? -- Choosing life or death -- Controlling or conceding the future?