Title Autonomy and pregnancy : a comparative analysis of compelled obstetric intervention / Samantha Halliday

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 249 pages) Series Biomedical law and ethics library Biomedical law and ethics library. Contents Introduction -- Court ordered obstetric intervention : the American case law -- Court authorised obstetric intervention : the English case law -- The imposition of a duty to protect the foetus upon a pregnant woman and her doctor in Germany -- Comparative reflections upon court authorised obstetric intervention Summary 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, Samantha Halliday focuses on the tension between a pregnant woman's autonomy and medical actions taken to protect the foetus, addressing circumstances in which courts have declared medical treatment lawful in the face of the pregnant woman's refusal of consent. As a work which calls into question the understanding of autonomy in prenatal medical care, this book will be of great use and interest to students, researchers and practitioners in medical law, comparative law, bioethics, and human rights. -- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 19, 2016) Subject Perinatology -- Law and legislation -- United States Perinatology -- Law and legislation -- Germany Perinatology -- Law and legislation -- England Involuntary treatment -- Law and legislation -- United States Involuntary treatment -- Law and legislation -- Germany Involuntary treatment -- Law and legislation -- England Fetus -- Diseases -- Law and legislation -- United States Fetus -- Diseases -- Law and legislation -- Germany Fetus -- Diseases -- Law and legislation -- England LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice. Involuntary treatment -- Law and legislation Perinatology -- Law and legislation Schwangerschaft Selbstbestimmung Ungeborenes Rechtsvergleich England Germany United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9781135329938 1135329931 1843147203 9781843147206 1135329923 9781135329921

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