The State and the Body: Legal Regulation of Bodily Autonomy
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leicester
- Unit of assessment
- 18 - Law
- Output identifier
- 917
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Hart Publishing
- ISBN
- 9781509909964
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This single-authored monograph analyses the legal regulation of bodily autonomy and questions the legitimate role of the state in regulating the human body. Concepts of embodiment, privacy and autonomy are used to develop a theory of bodily autonomy and that theory is applied in five distinct contexts (reproductive choices, end of life choices, sexual autonomy, body modifications, and selling the body). While the coherence of the overall argument made it desirable to address these five contexts in a single work, they could have formed the basis for separate journal articles.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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