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The State and the Body

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

The State and the Body

By Elizabeth Wicks

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About the book

This book investigates the limits of the legitimate role of the state in regulating the human body. It questions whether there is a public interest in issues of bodily autonomy, with particular focus on reproductive choices, end of life choices, sexual autonomy, body modifications and selling the body. The main question addressed in this book is whether such autonomous choices about the human body are, and should be, subject to state regulation. Potential justifications for the state's intervent...Show more

Law: Human rights and civil liberties

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9781509928859

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published year

2019

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1

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The State and the Body

Format

Paperback

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