Beyond Control - Medical Power and Abortion Law (Paperback)

This is a presentation of the case for challenging complacency and reconsidering the extent to which British law has interpreted abortion and constructed a medical model in such a way as to place the control over access to abortion services with the medical profession. Recognizing that abortion has slipped from the political (and specifically feminist) agenda, at least in the UK, the author argues that this systematic medicalization of abortion has rendered women powerless. She acknowledges that repoliticizing abortion - and recognizing how gender affects how power is exercised over women - creates its own risks and may mean that feminists face a potentially lethal backlash. But, she maintains, the failure to do so could close down avenues of choice and control at a time when fundamentalist pressures to eliminate abortion are becoming increasingly powerful. This critique of the medical, legal and political issues surrounding abortion in the UK, reflects the changes, both insidious and profound, in the range of medical technologies available (including RU486), in case law, legal theory and feminist thinking since Keown's 1988 study Abortion, Doctors and the Law.

General

Imprint:	Pluto Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Law and Social Theory
Release date:	June 1997
Authors:	Sally Sheldon
Dimensions:	215 x 135 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-7453-1167-8
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Jurisprudence & philosophy of law Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Constitutional & administrative law > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > Abortion
LSN:	0-7453-1167-9
Barcode:	9780745311678

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