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Offering the first comprehensive theoretical engagement with actions for wrongful conception and birth, The Harm Paradox provides readers with an insightful critique into the concepts of choice, responsibility and personhood.
Raising fundamental questions relating to birth, abortion, family planning and disability, Priaulx challenges the laws response that enforced parenthood is a harmless outcome and examines the concept of autonomy, gender and womens reproductive freedom.
It explores a wealth of questions, including:
An exciting and original contribution to the fields of medical law and ethics, tort law and feminist jurisprudence, this is an excellent resource for both students and practitioners.
Show moreOffering the first comprehensive theoretical engagement with actions for wrongful conception and birth, The Harm Paradox provides readers with an insightful critique into the concepts of choice, responsibility and personhood.
Raising fundamental questions relating to birth, abortion, family planning and disability, Priaulx challenges the laws response that enforced parenthood is a harmless outcome and examines the concept of autonomy, gender and womens reproductive freedom.
It explores a wealth of questions, including:
An exciting and original contribution to the fields of medical law and ethics, tort law and feminist jurisprudence, this is an excellent resource for both students and practitioners.
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Nicolette Priaulx is at the University of Keele.
"The Harm Paradox is a trenchant and powerful review of the
unwanted pregnancy - and, indeed, of pregnancy - as seen by a
thoughtful and remarkably fair, though by no means impartial,
feminist theorist." - J. K. Mason, Medical Law Review, vol. 15 no.
3 (November 2007)
"The Harm Paradox is a trenchant and powerful review of the
unwanted pregnancy - and, indeed, of pregnancy - as seen by a
thoughtful and remarkably fair, though by no means impartial,
feminist theorist." - J. K. Mason, Medical Law Review, vol. 15 no.
3 (November 2007)"Priaulx's analysis is thorough, well written and
detailed. Readers who are interested in the intersection of torts,
society, reproduction and feminism, will find the book a very
valuable contribution to the subject" - Tsachi Keren-Paz, Feminist
Legal Studies, Vol 16, No.2 (2008)
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