A Jurisprudence Of The Body

Acknowledgements......Page 6
Praise for A Jurisprudence of the Body......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
1	 Introduction......Page 16
2	 Nobody......Page 18
3	 Anybody......Page 19
4	 Somebody......Page 21
5	 Everybody......Page 23
6	 A Jurisprudence of the Body......Page 24
References......Page 27
Part I: The Body of Health Law......Page 29
1	 Introduction......Page 30
3	 The Role of Law: Step Two......Page 32
4.1	 Vulnerability Theory: Embodied Reality......Page 34
4.2	 Differences Among Bodies: Demographic Differences......Page 35
4.3	 Differences Within the Body: Developmental Difference......Page 37
5	 Dependency: Step Four......Page 40
6	 Social Identities and Inevitable Inequality: Step Five......Page 42
References......Page 46
1	 Introduction......Page 48
2	 Public Health......Page 53
3	 Public Health Law......Page 58
4.1	 The Socio-Political Context of Public Health Law......Page 62
4.2	 The First Moral Mandate of Public Health: Promoting Health Under the Shadow of Paternalism Objections......Page 64
4.3	 The Second Moral Mandate of Public Health: Addressing Inequalities Under the Shadow of Arguments for Pure Individual Responsibility......Page 66
4.4	 Public Health Law: Challenging and Enriching the Body in (and of) Biomedical and Health Jurisprudence......Page 67
5	 Conclusions......Page 69
References......Page 70
1	 Introduction......Page 75
2	 Bioinequalities......Page 76
3.1	 Gender and Maternity in the Construction of Stress......Page 83
3.2	 Race and Entrenched Disadvantage......Page 85
4	 Problems with Equality Law......Page 86
5.1	 What Are the Embodied Harms of Bioinequalities?......Page 89
5.2	 How Law Can Respond to the Embodied Harm of Inequality?......Page 90
6	 Legal Responses to the Science of Intergenerational Inequalities......Page 92
References......Page 94
1	 Introduction......Page 102
2	 Diversity in Practices and the Hegemony of Biomedical Understandings of the Body......Page 106
2.1	 Law, Biomedicine and the Neoliberal Organisation of Care......Page 107
2.2	 Proving Through Science and Biomedicine......Page 108
2.3	 What of the ‘Unproven’?......Page 110
3	 Multiplicity, Ontologies and Medical Pluralism......Page 111
4	 Vulnerability and Care Beyond Scientific Paradigms......Page 115
5	 Conclusion......Page 122
References......Page 123
Part II: Bodies of Health......Page 127
1	 Introduction......Page 128
2	 Temporality......Page 131
3	 Emergency......Page 132
4	 Emergence......Page 142
5	 Deferability......Page 145
6	 Conclusions......Page 151
References......Page 152
1	 Introduction......Page 157
2	 Conceptual Framings: Liminality, Embodiment......Page 160
2.1	 Liminality as a Theoretical Frame for Analyzing Health Law Concept......Page 161
2.2	 Pregnancy Loss as an Embodied Experience......Page 162
3	 Metaphor as an Interpretative Tool for Socio-Legal Analysis......Page 164
4.1	 Data Gathering......Page 167
4.2	 Metaphor Identification and Analysis......Page 168
5	 Liminal Bodies, Legal Frameworks and Metaphorical Insights......Page 169
5.1	 Pregnant Embodiment and the Divided Self......Page 170
5.2	 Maternal/Fetal Bodily Relations......Page 174
5.3	 Funerals for Fetuses......Page 177
6	 Conclusion......Page 181
References......Page 182
1	 Introduction......Page 187
2	 Diagnosing Gender......Page 190
3	 Depathologisation and Its Limitations......Page 194
4	 Acknowledging Vulnerability......Page 199
5	 Conclusion......Page 205
References......Page 207
1	 Introduction......Page 212
2	 Women as Test Subjects......Page 213
3.1	 A Brief History of the HPV Vaccine......Page 215
3.2	 United States......Page 216
3.3	 India......Page 219
4	 Supply and Demand for Women’s Bodies......Page 226
References......Page 227
Part III: Reframing Health Law Through Bodies......Page 232
1	 Introduction......Page 233
2	 The Contemporary Scientific Reality of Artificial Wombs......Page 236
3	 The Assumption That Ectogenesis Is Inevitable......Page 237
4	 The Assumption That Ectogenesis Will Result in Gender Equity in Child Bearing and Rearing......Page 242
4.1	 The Realities of Inequity in Care Labour Are Not Reducible to the Gestating Body......Page 244
4.2	 ‘Degendering Gestation’ Is Limited to Heterosexual Paradigms......Page 247
4.3	 Women’s Ability to Exercise Reproductive Autonomy Is Assumed Stable......Page 250
5	 The Realities of How Artificial Wombs Could Impact Stratification......Page 252
6	 Conclusion: Whose Future/Whose Ideals Are Represented When We Speculate About Ectogenesis?......Page 256
References......Page 257
1	 Relational Responsibilities: A Response to the Current Legal Framework......Page 261
2	 The Child: An Individual Situated Within Relationships......Page 265
3	 Caring Relationships......Page 269
4	 The Context for Care......Page 275
5	 Application of a Relational Responsibilities Approach: A Hypothetical Case......Page 278
6	 Judging with Care......Page 281
Case List......Page 282
References......Page 283
1	 Introduction......Page 287
2	 The Legacy of Ashley X......Page 291
3	 Fragmenting the Person......Page 294
4	 The Limits of Bodily Integrity......Page 300
5	 Towards Embodied Integrity......Page 303
5.1	 Challenging the Negation of Disability......Page 306
5.2	 Reasoning from the Body......Page 308
5.3	 Children as Rights Holders Distinct from their Families......Page 310
5.4	 Child’s Right to an Open Future......Page 311
6	 Concluding Thoughts......Page 312
References......Page 314
Index......Page 321