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Women's birthing bodies and the law : unauthorised intimate examinations, power, and vulnerability / edited by Camilla Pickles and Jonathan Herring.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Informed consent (Medical law).
- Pregnant women--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Pregnant women.
- Pregnant women--Medical examinations.
- Obstetrics--Law and legislation.
- Obstetrics.
- Physician and patient.
- Childbirth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 218 pages)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Hart Publishing, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction / Camilla Pickles and Jonathan Herring
- Non-consented vaginal examinations : the birthrights and AIMS perspective / Rebecca Brione
- Silence, acquiescence or consent : interpreting women's responses to intimate examinations / Elsa Montgomery
- Female genital examination and autonomy in medicine / Neda Taghinejadi and Brenda Kelly
- When a uterus enters the room, reason goes out the window / Stella Villarmea
- Human rights and gender stereotypes in childbirth / Christina Zampas
- How should the performance of periparturient vaginal examinations be regulated? / Charles Foster
- Including the victim's perspective : can vaginal examinations ever be sexual assaults? / Catarina Sjölin
- When 'battery' is not enough : exposing the gaps in unauthorised vaginal examinations during labour as a crime of battery / Camilla Pickles
- Implied consent and vaginal examination in pregnancy / Jonathan Herring
- Troubling consent : pain and pressure in labour and childbirth / Claire Murray
- Redressing unauthorised vaginal examinations through litigation / Andrea Mulligan.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 20, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Women's birthing bodies and the law
- ISBN:
- 9781509937585
- 1509937587
- 9781509937608
- 1509937609
- 9781509937592
- 1509937595
- Publisher Number:
- 99986760069
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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