In this admirably objective and lucid exposition, the author examines from a medico-legal standpoint the comparative position in various countries, of currently controversial medical procedures: voluntary sterilisation, compulsory sterilisation and castration, trans-sexualism, experimentation, transplantation, and euthanasia

1: Voluntary Sterilisation; 2: Compulsory Sterilisation and Castration; 3: Transsexualism : Problems of Sex Determination and Alteration; 4: Medical Experimentation; 5: Transplantation of Organs; 6: Euthanasia