In this admirably objective and lucid exposition, the author examines from a medico-legal standpoint the comparative position in various countries, particularly in the UK and the USA, of currently controversial medical procedures - few of which, if any, enjoy a settled or clearly defined place in the eyes of the law

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