The Harm Paradox
Tort Law and the Unwanted Child in an Era of Choice
Series: Biomedical Law and Ethics Library; 6;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge-Cavendish
- Date of Publication 18 January 2007
- ISBN 9781844721085
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 410 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Offering the first full theoretical engagement with actions for wrongful conception and birth, this book provides readers with a critique of the concepts of choice, responsibility and personhood.
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Offering the first comprehensive theoretical engagement with actions for wrongful conception and birth, The Harm Paradox provides readers with an insightful critique into the concepts of choice, responsibility and personhood.
Raising fundamental questions relating to birth, abortion, family planning and disability, Priaulx challenges the law’s response that enforced parenthood is a harmless outcome and examines the concept of autonomy, gender and women’s reproductive freedom.
It explores a wealth of questions, including:
- Can a healthy child resulting from negligence in family planning procedures constitute ‘harm’ sounding in damages, when so many see its birth as a blessing?
- Can a pregnancy constitute an ‘injury’ when many women choose that very event?
- Are parents really harmed, when they choose to keep their much loved but ‘unwanted child’?
- Why don’t women seek an abortion if the consequences of pregnancy are seen as harmful?
An exciting and original contribution to the fields of medical law and ethics, tort law and feminist jurisprudence, this is an excellent resource for both students and practitioners.
"The Harm Paradox is a trenchant and powerful review of the unwanted pregnancy - and, indeed, of pregnancy - as seen by a thoughtful and remarkably fair, though by no means impartial, feminist theorist." - J. K. Mason, Medical Law Review, vol. 15 no. 3 (November 2007) More
Table of Contents:
The Beginning of the Decline. Injured Bodies. Health, Disability and Harm. The Harm Paradox. Constructions of the Reasonable Woman. Reproductive Choice, Reproductive Reality. The Moral Domain of Autonomy
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