Böcker i International Studies in Human-serien

What is the relationship between culture and human rights? Can the idea of cultural rights, which are predicated on the distinctiveness and exclusivity of a communitya (TM)s beliefs and traditions, be compatible with the concept of human rights, which are universal and a ~inherenta (TM) to all human beings? If we accept such compatibility, what is the actual content of cultural rights? Who are their beneficiaries: individuals, or peoples or groups as collective entities? And what precise obligations do cultural rights pose upon states or other actors in international law, or for the international community as a whole? International instruments on the protection of human rights do not provide self-evident answers to these questions. This book seeks to analyse these dilemmas and to assess the impact that they are having on international law and the development of a coherent category of cultural human rights.

The International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is the first human rights treaty adopted by the United Nations in the 21st century. It seeks to secure the equal and effective enjoyment of human rights for the estimated 650 million persons with disabilities in the world. It does so by tailoring gerneral human rights norms to their circumstances. It reflects and advances the shift away from welfare to rights in the context of disability. The Convention itself represents a mix between non-discrimination and other substantive human rights and gives practical effect to the idea that all human rights are indivisible and interdependent. This collection of essays examines these developments from the global, European and Scandinavian perspectives and the challenge of transposing its provisions into national law. It marks the coming of age of disabilty as a core human rights concern.

Focusing on the interconnectedness between the protection of human rights and the achievement of development, the papers included in Human Rights and Development: Legal Perspectives from and for Ethiopia contribute to both the international and Ethiopian debate on this nexus.

One: An Evolutionary View of Ethics, Rights and the Doctor-Patient Relationship.- 1. Ethical Theory.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Philosophical Considerations.- 3. Biological Considerations.- 4. Discussion.- 5. Conclusions.- 2. Dual Evolution: Ethics, The Law, Rights.- 1. Ethics and the Law.- 2. The Concept of Rights.- 3. Conclusions.- 3. Bases for Medical Ethics.- 1. Origin of Medical Ethics and the Doctor-Patient Relationship.- 2. Rights and the Practice of Medicine.- 2.1 Autonomy and Beneficence.- 2.2 Non-Maleficence.- 2.3 Justice.- 2.4 Confidentiality.- 2.5 Patients' Right to Medical Care.- 2.6 Patients' Right to Know.- 3. Summary and Conclusions.- Summary and Conclusion to Part One.- Two: A Physician's Perspective on Problems In Medical Ethics (From an Evolutionary Ethical Point of View).- 4. Public Health Policy and Rights (AIDS).- 1. Introduction to the Problem.- 2. Testing for HIV.- 3. Problems in AIDS Control.- 4. Conclusions.- 5. Public Health Policy and Individual Rights (DRUGS).- 1. Drug Addictions (and Alcoholism).- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Alcoholism.- 1.3 Testing for Drugs.- 1.4 Controlling the Use of Drugs.- 1.5 Summary and Discussion.- 2. Drugs in Sports.- 6. Public Health Policy and Individual Rights (Continued).- 1. Rights and Psychiatry.- 2. Rights of the Handicapped and Disabled.- 3. Testing for Genetic Disease.- 7. Experimentation and Research.- 1. Research on Humans.- 2. Animal Experimentation.- 3. Biotechnology (Genetic Engineering).- 4. The Human Genome.- 8. Problems of Reproduction - Abortion (with notes on contraception).- 1. Discussion and Conclusions.- 9. Problems of Reproduction - Artificial Conception.- 1. Artificial Reproduction.- 1.1 Artificial Insemination.- 1.2In VitroFertilization.- 1.3 Surrogacy.- 2. Population Problems.- 3. Discussion and Conclusions (abortion, artificial conception and population problems).- 10. Dying.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Infanticide.- 3. Euthanasia.- 4. Discussion and Conclusions.- 11. Transplantation (with additional notes on the rationing of medical care).- 1. Transplantations.- 2. Discussion.- 3. Rationing.- Summary and Conclusions to Part Two.- References.

Translators' Note.- Biographical Sketch.- An Analysis of Chaadaev's Major Ideas.- The Philosophical Letters Addressed to a Lady.- Letter I.- Letter II.- Letter III.- Letter IV.- Letter V.- Letter VI.- Letter VII.- Letter VIII.- The Apologia of a Madman.- Fragments and Diverse Thoughts.- Commentaries and Notes to the Biographical Sketch.- Commentaries and Notes to the Analysis of Chaadaev's Ideas.- Commentaries and Notes to the Philosophical Letters.- Commentaries and Notes to the Apologia of a Madman.- Commentaries and Notes to the Fragments, Articles and Other Letters.

One: Introduction.- Two: Treatment Refusal and the Patient's Choice: Foundations in History, Law, and Ethics.- Three: The "Future Factor" Conceptual Foundations of Advance Directives.- Four: Advance Directives: Current Forms, Legal Fears, Moral Goals.- Five: When Choices Fail.- Six: The Forecast for Advance Directives: Indispensable or Superfluous?.- Bibliography: Books and Articles.- Bibliography: Cases and Statutes.- Appendix: Advance Directive Statutes, State-by-State Listing.