Autonomy and Pregnancy

A Comparative Analysis of Compelled Obstetric Intervention

This book focuses upon the permissibility of encroachment on the pregnant woman's autonomy in the interests of the foetus. Drawing on the law in England & Wales, the United States of America and Germany, Samantha Halliday focuses on the tension between a pregnant woman's autonomy and medical actions taken to protect the foetus, addressing circumstances in which courts have declared medical treatment lawful in the face of the pregnant woman's refusal of consent.

mai 2016, env. 249 pages, Biomedical Law and Ethics Library, Anglais
Taylor and Francis
978-0-415-42303-8

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