Intersections--women on law, medicine, and technology / edited by Kerry Petersen.

Aldershot ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate/Dartmouth, [1997], ©1997.

ix, 246 pages ; 24 cm

Hippocrates: dead or alive? / Alison Britton -- 'It's not society that's the problem, it's women's bodies': a historical view of medical treatment of women / Wendy Mitchinson -- Female and disabled: a human rights perspective on law and medicine / Melinda Jones and Lee Ann Marks -- Interaction between family planning policies and the introduction of new reproductive technologies / R. Alta Charo -- Reproductive autonomy and reproductive technology: gender, deviance and infertility / Sharyn L. Roach Anleu -- Gamete donation, reproductive technology and the law / Belinda Bennett -- Life after death? legal and ethical considerations of maintaining pregnancy in brain dead women / Sarah Elliston -- Letting die or assisting death: how should the law respond to the patient in a persistent vegetative state? / Sheila A. M. McLean -- Gender and equity: emerging issues in Australian clinical drug trial regulatory policies / Leanna Darvall -- Science of biotechnology: present, past and future quagmires / Philippa Gannon -- Dissecting medical power / Kerry Petersen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.