A Caring Jurisprudence - Listening to Patients at the Supreme Court (Hardcover, annotated edition)

In deciding the abortion and physician assisted suicide cases, a majority of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court drew on medical knowledge to inform their opinions while dismissing the distinctively different knowledge offered by patients. Following the legal norms derived from the ethic of justice, the CourtOs deference toward the Ouniversal,O Oimpartial,O and OreasonedO knowledge of the medical profession and its disregard of the Oparticular,O Oinvolved,O and OemotionalO knowledge of patients seemed inevitable as well as justified. But was it? This book argues that it is both possible and proper to develop a jurisprudence capable of incorporating the knowledge of patients. Drawing on feminist scholarship, this book proposes a model for a Ocaring jurisprudenceO that integrates the ethic of justice and the ethic of care to ensure that patientsO knowledge is included in judicial decision making.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 1999
First published:	August 1999
Authors:	Susan M. Behuniak
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	208
Edition:	annotated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8476-9454-9
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Courts & procedure > General
LSN:	0-8476-9454-2
Barcode:	9780847694549

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