Violence against women's health in international law / Sara De Vido.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Vido, Sara, author.

Series:

Melland Schill studies in international law

Melland Schill Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's health services--Law and legislation.

Women's health services.

Women--Legal status, laws, etc.

Women.

Women's Health--legislation & jurisprudence.

Medical Subjects:

Women's Health--legislation & jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

x, 262 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK ; Manchester University Press, 2020.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Premise and main argument: elaborating the new notion of violence against women's health

Background

Violence against women: the knowledge so far

The reasons underlying the choice of the right to health and the right to reproductive health

Why human rights and why women's rights?

Perspective: the Hippocratic medical paradigm

Structure of the book

1. The Anamnesis: `Case History' On Violence Against Women, And Against Women's Rights To Health And To Reproductive Health

The anamnesis, a two-dimensional approach

The horizontal, `interpersonal' dimension

The vertical, `state policies' dimension

Conclusions: paving the way for the diagnosis

2. The Diagnosis: A Conceptualisation Of Violence Against Women's Health (Vawh)

Unravelling the notion of violence against women's health

Consent and autonomy in the concept of VAWH

Access to contraception

Conclusions

3. The Treatment: Reconceptualising States' Obligations In Countering Vawh

Starting from the beginning: the nature of state obligations

Methodology for treatment: reconceptualising state obligations in countering VAWH

Conclusions on state obligations: a mutually reinforcing framework and some open issues

Conclusion: the prognosis

Prognosis: what we achieved

the dimensions intersect

Prognosis: what we did not achieve

international law as a cause of violence?.

ISBN:

9781526124975

1526124971

OCLC:

1142533003