| Description |
1 online resource ( xvi, 218 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Camilla Pickles and Jonathan Herring -- Non-consented vaginal examinations : the birthrights and AIMS perspective / Rebecca Brione -- Silence, acquiescence or consent : interpreting women's responses to intimate examinations / Elsa Montgomery -- Female genital examination and autonomy in medicine / Neda Taghinejadi and Brenda Kelly -- When a uterus enters the room, reason goes out the window / Stella Villarmea -- Human rights and gender stereotypes in childbirth / Christina Zampas -- How should the performance of periparturient vaginal examinations be regulated? / Charles Foster -- Including the victim's perspective : can vaginal examinations ever be sexual assaults? / Catarina Sjölin -- When 'battery' is not enough : exposing the gaps in unauthorised vaginal examinations during labour as a crime of battery / Camilla Pickles -- Implied consent and vaginal examination in pregnancy / Jonathan Herring -- Troubling consent : pain and pressure in labour and childbirth / Claire Murray -- Redressing unauthorised vaginal examinations through litigation / Andrea Mulligan |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 20, 2021) |
| Subject |
Informed consent (Medical law)
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Pregnant women -- Legal status, laws, etc
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Pregnant women -- Medical examinations
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Obstetrics -- Law and legislation
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Physician and patient
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Childbirth
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pickles, Camilla, editor
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Herring, Jonathan, editor
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Bloomsbury (Firm)
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| LC no. |
2020027403 |
| ISBN |
9781509937585 |
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1509937587 |
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9781509937608 |
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1509937609 |
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9781509937592 |
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1509937595 |
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