Autonomy and Pregnancy
A Comparative Analysis of Compelled Obstetric Intervention
Technology has come to dominate the modern experience of pregnancy and childbirth, but instead of empowering pregnant women, technology has been used to identify the foetus as a second patient characterised as a distinct entity with its own needs and interests. Often, foetal and the woman's interests will be aligned, though in legal and medical discourses the two 'patients' are frequently framed as antagonists with conflicting interests. This book focuses upon the permissibility of encroachment on the pregnant woman's autonomy in the interests of the foetus. Drawing on the law in England & Wales, the United States of America and Germany,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-135-32993-8
- EAN: 9781135329938
- Produktnummer: 20168281
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 267 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'059 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Samantha Halliday is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Leeds.
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