Children's bioethics : the international biopolitical discourse on harmful traditional practices and the right of the child to cultural identity / Maya Sabatello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sabatello, Maya.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Legal status, laws, etc.

Children.

Indigenous children--Legal status, laws, etc.

Indigenous children.

Children--Health and hygiene.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 287 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009.

Summary:

Only scant attention has been given to the issue of children's bioethics. Even when such a discourse took place, it hardly touched upon children as social agents. In this novel work, Maya Sabatello looks at the "body politics" of religious and cultural medical practices -from "harmful traditional practices" to genetic engineering. Building on literature from medical anthropology, cultural studies, disability studies, social sciences, and law, she explores the international discourse on children's bioethics from a previously uncharted child-centered approach. In light of the existing multiculturalism, she contends that in the discourse on children's bioethics, not only must the medical, social, and anthropological nexus of the child be taken into account, but that incorporating identity claims into the legal discourse is also essential for the child's voice to be heard.

Contents:

Using international human rights framework to study bioethics

Children's bioethics in the Convention on the Rights of the Child : historical overview of the drafting process

Traditional bodily practices : case studies

Children's bioethics and the framework of analysis

Biomedical practices and the child : rights in question

Rights discourse, children and bioethics

Broadening the lens : genetic manipulation

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-280) and index.

ISBN:

9789004173415

9004173412

OCLC:

298325883