Autonomy and Pregnancy - A Comparative Analysis of Compelled Obstetric Intervention (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
Release date:	May 2016
First published:	2008
Authors:	Sam Halliday
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	249
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-42303-8
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > General Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Gynaecology & obstetrics > Materno-fetal medicine Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > General
LSN:	0-415-42303-1
Barcode:	9780415423038

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