02989nam 22005051 450 991015317280332120200514202323.01-5099-0998-21-5099-0997-41-5099-0996-610.5040/9781509909988(CKB)3710000000960881(MiAaPQ)EBC4749049(OCoLC)954424199(UtOrBLW)bpp09260243(MiAaPQ)EBC6161107(EXLCZ)99371000000096088120161216d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe state and the body legal regulation of bodily autonomy /Elizabeth WicksOxford ;Portland, Oregon :Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,2016.1 online resource (191 pages)1-5099-2885-5 1-84946-779-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Bodily autonomy -- The public-private distinction -- Reproductive choices -- Choices about dying -- Sexual autonomy -- Body modification -- Selling the body -- Conclusion: legitimate justifications for legal regulation of bodily autonomy."This book investigates the limits of the legitimate role of the state in regulating the human body. It questions whether there is a public interest in issues of bodily autonomy, with particular focus on reproductive choices, end of life choices, sexual autonomy, body modifications and selling the body. The main question addressed in this book is whether such autonomous choices about the human body are, and should be, subject to state regulation. Potential justifications for the state's intervention into these issues through mechanisms such as the criminal law and regulatory schemes are evaluated. These include preventing harm to others and/or to the individual involved, as well as more abstract concepts such as public morality, the sanctity of human life, and the protection of human dignity. The State and the Body argues that the state should be particularly wary about encroaching upon exercises of autonomy by embodied selves and concludes that only interventions based upon Mill's harm principle or, in tightly confined circumstances, the dignity of the human species as a whole should suffice to justify public intervention into private choices about the body."--Bloomsbury Publishing.Human bodyLaw and legislationEnglandHuman bodyLaw and legislationJurisprudence & philosophy of lawHuman bodyLaw and legislationHuman bodyLaw and legislation.344.04/194Wicks Elizabeth1973-1151297UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910153172803321The state and the body2890218UNINA