Regulating Autonomy

Sex, Reproduction and Family
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84113-946-3
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 436 g

These essays explore the nature and limits of individual autonomy in law, policy and the work of regulatory agencies. Authors ask searching questions about the nature and scope of the regulation of 'private' lives, from intimacies, personal relationships and domestic lives to reproduction. They question the extent to which the law does, or should, protect individual autonomy. Recent rapid advances in the development of new technologies - particularly those concerned with human genetics and assisted reproduction - have generated new questions (practical, social, legal and ethical) about how far the state should intervene in individual decision making. Is there an inevitable tension between individual liberty and the common good? How might a workable balance between the public and the private be struck? How, indeed, should we think about 'autonomy'?

The essays explore the arguments used to create and maintain the boundaries of autonomy - for example, the protection of the vulnerable, public goods of various kinds, and the maintenance of tradition and respect for cultural practices. Contributors address how those boundaries should be drawn and interventions justified. How are contemporary ethical debates about autonomy constructed, and what principles do they embody? What happens when those principles become manifest in law?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Day-Sclater, Shelley

Jackson, Emily

Ebtehaj, Fatemeh

Richards, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Autonomy and Private Life Emily Jackson and Shelley Day Sclater
Part 1: Intimacies and Domestic Lives

2. Exploitation: The Role of Law in Regulating Prostitution Suzanne Jenkins
3. Feminist Anti-violence Discourse as Regulation Helen Reece
4. Relational Autonomy and Rape Jonathan Herring
5. Rules for Feeding Babies Ellie Lee and Jennie Bristow
6. Legal Representation and Parental Autonomy: The Work of the English Family Bar in Contact Cases Mavis Maclean and John Eekelaar
7. Regulating Step-parenthood Jan Pryor
8. Internet Sex Offenders: Individual Autonomy, 'Folk Devils' and State Control Julia Davidson and Elena Martellozzo
Part 2: Reproduction

9. Regulation of Reproductive Decision-making Theresa Glennon
10. Instruments for ART Regulation: What are the Most
Appropriate Mechanisms for Achieving Smart Regulation? Martin H Johnson and Kerry Petersen
11. Which Children can we Choose? Boundaries of Reproductive Autonomy Martin Richards
12. Anonymity-or not-in the Donation of Gametes and Embryos Susan Golombok
13. Autonomy and the UK's Law on Abortion: Current Problems and Future Prospects Laura Riley and Ann Furedi

Über Autor(innen)

Shelley Day Sclater has been a lawyer and academic social scientist and now works as a freelance writer and researcher. She was Professor of Psychology and Law at the University of East London.
Fatemeh Ebtehaj is an associate member of the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge.

Emily Jackson is a Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and a member the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, and the British Medical Association Medical Ethics Committee.
Martin Richards is Emeritus Professor of Family Research at the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge.