Publisher : Regency Publications Author : Kusum Language : English Edition : Latest By Publishers Book Cover : Hard Back ISBN : 9788186030806
Table of Content
Introduction V SECTION I: ASSISTED REPRODUCTION 1. Artificial insemination and the law 3 2. Wombs to-let 20 3. Manufactured children: Legitimacy and rights 24 4. Whose child is it anyway? 30 5. Will the real mother please stand up! 6. Artificial insemination Act: 1995 37 7. Surrogate motherhood: Implications and issues 40 SECTION II: ELECTIVE BIRTHS 8. Against female dignity 63 9. Amniocentesis and gender discrimination in India 67 10. [Time] elective births 88 SECTION III: FOETAL RESEARCH/PROTECTION 11. Trading in foetuses 93 12. Of foetal rights 95 13. A mother's prerogative? 99 14. A medico-legal dilemma 103 15. Protecting jobs and the unborn child 107 SECTION IV: ABORTION/COMPULSORY STERILISATION 16. To do or not to do 113 17. Abortion: Who has a say ? 117 18. Womb removal: Plight of mentally retarded 120 SECTION V: DAMAGES FOR WRONGFUL BIRTHS 19. Failure of FP devices: Awardof damages 127 20. Is compensation for 'wrongful birth' morally right? 130 21. The burden of an unwanted child 133 SECTION VI: SEXUAL IDENTITY ABERRATIONS/CONFLICTS AND TRANS-SEXUALISM 22. Change of sex by choice: Legal implications 139 23. Legal implications of sex change surgery 142 24. Hermaphrodite marriage 164 25. Sex of the athlete 168 26. M.P. cops 'marriage' 171 SECTION VII: DEATH AND DYING 27. Is artificial life better than natural death 177 28
Suicide vs Law 181 29. Living will statutes 184 30. Suicide: Sans deterrence 187 31. Suicide: A judicial retreat? 191 32. For a humane approach to suicide 194 SECTION VIII: TRADING IN ORGANS/CORPSE 33. Dead serve the living 199 34. Trading in corpse 202 35. Condemned prisoners: Right to donate organs 205 36. Living beyond life 210 37. Organ transplantation: Need for law 215 38. Supply of human organs for transplantation 219 39. Organ donation: Curbing the racket 240 40. Vast and Vague: Transplantation of human organs Act
1994 243 APPENDICES I. The Delhi artificial insemination (Human) Act
1995 249 II. The pre-natal diagnostic techniques (regulation and prevention of misuse) Act
1994 254 III. The transplantation of human organs Act
1994 273
