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Caring autonomy : European human rights law and the challenge of individualism / Katri Lõhmus.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lõhmus, Katri, 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European Court of Human Rights.
- Respect for persons--Law and legislation--European Union countries.
- Respect for persons.
- Right to die--Law and legislation--European Union countries.
- Right to die.
- Reproductive rights.
- Sexual rights.
- Autonomy (Philosophy).
- Individualism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Despite its absence in the written text of the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights now regularly uses the concept of autonomy when deciding cases concerning assisted dying, sexuality and reproductive rights, self-determination, fulfilment of choices and control over body and mind. But is the concept of autonomy as expressed in the ECtHR reasoning an appropriate tool for regulating reproduction or medical practice? Caring Autonomy reveals and evaluates the type of individual the ECtHR expresses and shapes through its autonomy-based case law. It claims that from a social and ethical perspective, the current individualistic interpretation of the concept of autonomy is inadequate, and proposes a new reading of the concept that is rooted in the acknowledgment and appreciation of human interdependence and the importance of interpersonal trust and care.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Choosing autonomy
- 2. What informs the ECtHR? The origins of the concept of individual autonomy
- 3. Expressions of individual autonomy
- 4. Autonomy, individualisation, and the emergence of the problem of trust
- 5. Autonomy, law, and trust
- 6. Caring autonomy
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-316-28926-5
- 1-316-30992-4
- 1-316-32330-7
- 1-316-32998-4
- 1-316-33332-9
- 1-316-32664-0
- 1-107-44211-7
- 1-139-97668-0
- 1-316-31994-6
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