Legal, Medical and Cultural Regulation of the Body
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Legal, Medical and Cultural Regulation of the Body
Transformation and Transgression
Smith, Stephen W.; McLean, Professor Sheila A. M.; Deazley, Ronan
Taylor & Francis Ltd
11/2009
256
Dura
Inglês
9780754677369
15 a 20 dias
Considers the legal, cultural and medical ways in which we regulate the body, exploring how conceptions of self, liberalism, property and harm inform and influence contentious legal and ethical questions about what we can and cannot do to or with our own bodies.
Contents: Preface; Introduction - being human: of liberty and privilege, Margaret Brazier; Part I Regulating Reproduction: Introduction to part I, Helen Beebee; Nothing and not-nothing: law's ambivalent response to transformation and transgression at the beginning of life, Mary Ford; Regulating reproduction:frozen embryos, consent, welfare and the equality myth, Sonia Harris-Short; Persons and their parts: new reproductive technologies and risks of commodification, Heather Widdows. Part II Interspecies Embryos: Introduction to part II, Stephen W. Smith; Legislating interspecies embryos, Marie Fox; Humanity, divinity, and interspecies embryos, Robert Song. Part III Transforming the Body: Introduction to part III, Kate Ince; Less is more: body integrity identity disorder, R.C. Smith; Medicine, governmentality and biopower in cosmetic surgery, Victoria Pitts-Taylor. Part IV Self-Harm and Self-Determination: Introduction to part IV, Colin Warbrick; A duty to treat? - a legal analysis, Mr Justice Munby; Bursting the autonomy bubble: a defence of the Court of Appeal decision in R (on the application of Oliver Leslie Burke) v GMC, Claire McIvor; Liberalism and constraining choice: the cases of death and serious bodily harm, G.R. Sullivan; Index.
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Considers the legal, cultural and medical ways in which we regulate the body, exploring how conceptions of self, liberalism, property and harm inform and influence contentious legal and ethical questions about what we can and cannot do to or with our own bodies.
Contents: Preface; Introduction - being human: of liberty and privilege, Margaret Brazier; Part I Regulating Reproduction: Introduction to part I, Helen Beebee; Nothing and not-nothing: law's ambivalent response to transformation and transgression at the beginning of life, Mary Ford; Regulating reproduction:frozen embryos, consent, welfare and the equality myth, Sonia Harris-Short; Persons and their parts: new reproductive technologies and risks of commodification, Heather Widdows. Part II Interspecies Embryos: Introduction to part II, Stephen W. Smith; Legislating interspecies embryos, Marie Fox; Humanity, divinity, and interspecies embryos, Robert Song. Part III Transforming the Body: Introduction to part III, Kate Ince; Less is more: body integrity identity disorder, R.C. Smith; Medicine, governmentality and biopower in cosmetic surgery, Victoria Pitts-Taylor. Part IV Self-Harm and Self-Determination: Introduction to part IV, Colin Warbrick; A duty to treat? - a legal analysis, Mr Justice Munby; Bursting the autonomy bubble: a defence of the Court of Appeal decision in R (on the application of Oliver Leslie Burke) v GMC, Claire McIvor; Liberalism and constraining choice: the cases of death and serious bodily harm, G.R. Sullivan; Index.
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