Elizabeth Wicks

The State and the Body (eBook, PDF)

Legal Regulation of Bodily Autonomy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the limits of the legitimate role of the state in regulating the human body. It questions whether there is a public interest in issues of bodily autonomy, with particular focus on reproductive choices, end of life choices, sexual autonomy, body modifications and selling the body. The main question addressed in this book is whether such autonomous choices about the human body are, and should be, subject to state regulation. Potential justifications for the state's intervention into these issues through mechanisms such as the criminal law and regulatory schemes are evaluated. These include preventing harm to others and/or to the individual involved, as well as more abstract concepts such as public morality, the sanctity of human life, and the protection of human dignity. The State and the Body argues that the state should be particularly wary about encroaching upon exercises of autonomy by embodied selves and concludes that only interventions based upon Mill's harm principle or, in tightly confined circumstances, the dignity of the human species as a whole should suffice to justify public intervention into private choices about the body.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509909971
• Artikelnr.: 47382525

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Wicks is a Professor of Human Rights Law at the University of Leicester, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Bodily Autonomy I. Introduction: Why the Body Matters II. Autonomy:
Rights and Relations III. The Body IV. Conclusion 2. The Public-Private
Distinction I. Introduction II. Different Meanings of Public and Private:
Contexts, History and Rights III. Feminist Critique of the Public-Private
Distinction IV. A Descriptive/Normative Spectrum V. Defining the 'Private'
VI. Defining the 'Public' VII. Conclusion 3. Reproductive Choices I.
Introduction II. Reproduction, the Public-Private Distinction and the Right
to Respect for Private Life III. State Regulation of Reproduction in
England and Wales IV. Justification for State Regulation of Reproduction V.
Conclusion 4. Choices about Dying I. Introduction II. State Regulation of
Dying in England and Wales III. Justifications for the Regulation of Dying
IV. Conclusion 5. Sexual Autonomy I. Introduction II. Regulation of Sexual
Autonomy III. Public Morality and (Private) Sexual Autonomy IV. Conclusion
6. Bodily Modification I. Introduction II. Cosmetic Surgery III. Female
Genital Mutilation IV. Body Integrity Identity Disorder and the Amputation
of Healthy Limbs V. Gender Reassignment Surgery VI. Paternalistic
Restrictions on Body Modification VII. Conclusion 7. Selling the Body I.
Introduction II. Prostitution III. Surrogacy IV. Sale of Eggs or Organs V.
Preserving the Choice Paradigm VI. Conclusion 8. Conclusion: Legitimate
Justifications for Legal Regulation of Bodily Autonomy I. Defining Bodily
Autonomy II. Embracing the Harm Principle III. Rejecting Paternalism and
Moralism IV. Preserving the Dignity of the Human Species V. Defending the
Choice Paradigm VI. Practical Recommendations to Enhance and Support Bodily
Autonomy