Feminist Judgments: Health Law Rewritten

Seema Mohapatra editor Lindsay Wiley editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:22nd Dec '22

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This volume provides an alternate history of US health law by rewriting key judicial opinions from a feminist perspective.

This volume provides an alternate history of health law by rewriting key judicial opinions from a feminist perspective. Leading scholars demonstrate how feminist analysis can transform law in a field where paternalism, stereotypes, and the public-private divide shape decisions about patient autonomy, coordination of care and health care financing.This volume provides an alternate history of health law by rewriting key judicial opinions from a feminist perspective. Each chapter includes a rewritten opinion penned by a leading scholar relying exclusively on court precedents and scientific understanding available at the time of the original decision accompanied by commentary from an expert placing the case in historical context and explaining how the feminist judgment might have shaped a different path for subsequent developments. It provides a map of the health law field-where paternalism, individualism, gender stereotypes, and tensions over the public-private divide shape decisions about informed consent, medical and nursing malpractice, the relationships among health care professionals and the institutions where they work, end-of-life care, reproductive health care, biomedical research, ownership of human tissues and cells, the influence of religious directives on health care standards, health care discrimination, long-term care, private health insurance, Medicaid coverage, the Affordable Care Act, and more.

ISBN: 9781108495097

Dimensions: 235mm x 158mm x 29mm

Weight: 790g

400 pages