Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
Medical ethics and medical practice -- Public health and the state patient relationship -- Health rights and obligations in the European Union -- The management of infertility and childlessness -- The control of fertility -- Civil and criminal liability in reproductive medicine -- Genetic information and the law -- Medical confidentiality -- Liability for medical injury -- Consent to treatment -- Health resources and dilemmas in treatment -- Treatment of the aged -- The diagnosis of death -- The donation of organs and transplantation -- The body as property -- Medical futility -- Euthanasia -- Biomedical human research and experimentation -- Research on children, fetuses and embryos -- Mental health and human rights.