Identity, Personhood and the Law
This book is an examination of how the law understands human identity and the whole notion of 'human being'. On these two notions the law, usually unconsciously, builds the superstructure of 'human rights'. It explores how the law understands the concept of a human being, and hence a person who is entitled to human rights. This involves a discussion of the legal treatment of those of so-called marginal personhood (e.g. high functioning non-human animals; humans of limited intellectual capacity, and fetuses). It also considers how we understand our identity as people, and hence how we fall into different legal categories: such as gender, relig…
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Weitere Autoren: Foster, Charles
- ISBN: 978-3-319-53459-6
- EAN: 9783319534596
- Produktnummer: 22588764
- Verlag: Springer
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 973 KB
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