Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 180 Seiten)
Edition:
2014
ISBN:
9781509909988
,
9781509909971
Content:
"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Content:
Bodily autonomy -- The public-private distinction -- Reproductive choices -- Choices about dying -- Sexual autonomy -- Body modification -- Selling the body -- Conclusion: legitimate justifications for legal regulation of bodily autonomy
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781849467797
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wicks, Elizabeth, 1973 - The state and the body Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2016 ISBN 9781849467797
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781509909964
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781509909971
Language:
English
Subjects:
Law
Keywords:
Körper
;
Unabhängigkeit
;
Persönlichkeitsrecht
DOI:
10.5040/9781509909988
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