tort law and the unwanted child in an era of choice /
Nicolette Priaulx.
New York :
Routledge-Cavendish,
2007.
1 online resource (xvii, 204 pages) :
illustrations
Biomedical law and ethics library
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-195) and index.
The beginning of the decline -- Characterising harm -- Loss of autonomy? -- Defining the problem -- Notes -- Injured bodies -- Natural born reproducers -- Wrongful pregnancy as a personal injury -- Orthodox injuries -- Harmed minds, harmed bodies -- Paradigm shifts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Health, disability and harm -- Emerging dichotomies -- The 'disability' exception -- Parental autonomy -- The importance of context -- Rees in the House of Lords -- Conclusion : what kind of autonomy? -- Notes -- The harm paradox -- The mitigation ethic -- Mitigation is dead -- Long live choice! -- My family and other animals -- Conclusion : a harm paradox? -- Notes -- Constructions of the reasonable woman -- On being responsible -- Responsible women -- Self-regarding woman : 'still a choice' -- Natural woman : 'she had no other choice' -- The 'woman in need' -- Conclusion : not a choice? -- Notes -- Reproductive choice, reproductive reality -- A (wo)man's right to choose -- Reversing nature's discrimination -- 'In practice abortion is not a choice' -- 'Women do not experience abortion as a choice' -- 'Women are conforming, not choosing' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- The moral domain of autonomy -- What kind of person? -- Beyond personhood -- 'Autonomous choice' : a relational approach -- Being responsible beings -- Concluding remarks.
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