Fletcher, Ruth, Fox, Marie, McCandless, Julie (2008) Legal embodiment: analysing the body of healthcare law. Medical Law Review, 16 (3). pp. 321-345. ISSN 0967-0742. (doi:10.1093/medlaw/fwn017) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:71518)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwn017 |
Abstract
In this essay and the contributions that follow, we advocate an expansion of the parameters of mainstream healthcare law to include feminist analyses of embodiment. We suggest that a more thorough engagement with the meaning and value of embodiment can better inform normative assessment and critical appraisal in healthcare law. Law's conventional approach to regulating bodily interventions has been to consider the body as an object of analysis rather than as a category of analysis. In our view, legal analysis could offer a richer understanding of law's engagement with bodies and bodily materials if it adopted a thicker conception of embodiment. Such a conception would seek to account for the ways in which we value the living physical body as it enables our being in the world and our interactions with others.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1093/medlaw/fwn017 |
Subjects: | K Law |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > Kent Law School |
Depositing User: | Julie McCandless |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jan 2019 11:46 UTC |
Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 12:33 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/71518 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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