Reproductive Health and Human Rights
by Rebecca J. Cook, Bernard M. Dickens and Mahmoud F. Fathalla
(first published by Oxford University Press, 2003)
The book is designed to equip health care providers and administrators to integrate ethical, legal, and human rights principles in protection and promotion of reproductive health, and to inform lawyers and women's health advocates about aspects of medicine and health care systems that affect reproduction. The authors integrate their disciplines in reproductive medicine, women’s health, human rights, medical law and bioethics, to provide an accessible but comprehensive introduction to reproductive and sexual health. They analyze fifteen case studies of recurrent problems, focusing particularly on resource-poor settings. Approaches to resolution are considered at clinical and health system levels. They also consider kinds of social change that would relieve the underlying conditions of reproductive health dilemmas. The aim is to equip readers to fashion solutions in their own health care circumstances, compatibly with ethical, legal and human rights principles.
English edition at Oxford Scholarship Online
Digital Editions in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic:
- English original (institutional access through Oxford Scholarship Online)
- Spanish edition - download book (PDF 606 pages)
- Portuguese Edition (PDF 602 pages)
- Arabic Edition of the Case Studies with added brief perspectives from the Egyptian law, and Islamic and Coptic religious scholars, based on the proceedings of a national multi-disciplinary meeting organized by the Egyptian Fertility Care Foundation (EFCF).
Other Language editions, only in print:
- Chinese (Beijing: China Population Publishing House, 2006)
- French Edition (Elsevier-Masson)
Table of Contents
- Summary Table of Contents
- Detailed Table of Contents
Case Studies excerpted from the book:
#2:Female Genital Cutting (Circumcision/Mutilation)
#3:An Adolescent Girl Seeing Sexual and Reproductive Health Care
#4:Sexual Assault and Emergency Contraception