The Right to Bodily Integrity

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The right to bodily integrity is a controversial issue within moral, political and legal discourse. This first collection of scholarly research articles provides a comprehensive overview of the debates around the ethical and legal aspects of the right to bodily integrity and its implications in theory and practice.

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Full title :The Right to Bodily Integrity

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Publication Date:2014

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Publisher(s):Ashgate
Place of Publication:Farnham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

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Description:558 p.

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ISBN:9781409466079, 1409466078
oclc:ocn901036842
Dewey Decimal:344.04194

Part I Bodies, Rights and Integrity: Bodily and moral integrity rights, Jill Marshall; My body, your body, our bodies, Jonathan Herring and P. Chau; Against the right to bodily integrity: of cyborgs and human rights, Gowri Ramachandran. Part II Pregnancy and reproduction: A defense of abortion, J.J. Thomson; A feminist, Kantian conception of the right to bodily integrity: the cases of abortion and homosexuality, Helga Varder; Sex and the sacred: sterilization and bodily integrity in English and Canadian law, K.L. Savell. Part III Altering Children's Bodies: The child's right to bodily integrity, R. Ludbrook; Between prophylaxis and child abuse: the ethics of neonatal male circumcision, M. Benatar and D. Benatar; Routine (non-religious) neonatal circumcision and bodily integrity: a transatlantic dialogue, W. Dekkers; Medicine's challenge to relativism: the case of female genital mutilation, L.M Kopelman; Bodily integrity and the surgical management of intersex, E. Grabham Forever small: the strange case of Ashley X, E.F. Kittay. Part IV Transplantation: Transplantation and rights over our bodies, T.M. Wilkinson; Confiscating live body parts, C. Fabre; Hand transplants and bodily in…