Square Pegs in Round Holes: The Dilemma of Conjoined Twins and Individual Rights

The judgment in the English Court of Appeal case of Re A ( Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation) highlights forcefully the highly individualistic and abstract assumptions that commonly shape the deployment of rights discourse in liberal legal adjudication. Forced by the all-or-nothing nature of this...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Social & legal studies 2001-12, Vol.10 (4), p.459-482
1. Verfasser:	Munro, Vanessa E.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Bioethics Civil Rights - legislation & jurisprudence Conjoined twins Court decisions Courts Courts of appeal Decision Making Defects Deployment Discourse England England and Wales Ethical Analysis Ethical Theory Female Homicide - ethics Human Rights Humans Infant Judicial Decisions Judicial Role Jurisprudence Law Legal theory Maternal-Fetal Relations Parents Personhood Philosophy of law Pregnancy Rights Surgical Procedures, Operative - ethics Treatment Refusal - legislation & jurisprudence Twins Twins, Conjoined - surgery United Kingdom
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Zusammenfassung:	The judgment in the English Court of Appeal case of Re A ( Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation) highlights forcefully the highly individualistic and abstract assumptions that commonly shape the deployment of rights discourse in liberal legal adjudication. Forced by the all-or-nothing nature of this discourse into a dilemma between perceiving of the twins as separate right-bearers or perceiving of the stronger twin, Jodie, as the singular right-bearer and of Mary, her weaker sibling, as a non-legal entity, the court chose the former option.
ISSN:	0964-6639 1461-7390
DOI:	10.1177/a020306