1st Edition
Autonomy and Pregnancy A Comparative Analysis of Compelled Obstetric Intervention
By Sam Halliday
Copyright 2016
267 Pages
by
Routledge
267 Pages
by
Routledge
267 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction 1. Court ordered obstetric intervention: the American case law 2. Court authorised obstetric intervention: The English case law 3. The imposition of a duty to protect the foetus upon a pregnant woman and her doctor in Germany 4. Comparative reflections upon court authorised obstetric intervention
Biography
Samantha Halliday is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Leeds.
