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A Jurisprudence of the Body

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Editors:
  1. Chris Dietz

    1. School of Law, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

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  2. Mitchell Travis

    1. School of Law, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

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  3. Michael Thomson

    1. School of Law, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

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  • Offers ‘cutting edge’ contributions from leaders in the field of Health Law
  • Examines the body as a legal and medical construct and as a product of power relations
  • Engages with the existing scholarship and moves the field forward

Part of the book series: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies (PSLS)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Nobody, Anybody, Somebody, Everybody: A Jurisprudence of the Body

    • Chris Dietz, Mitchell Travis, Michael Thomson
    Pages 1-13

  3. Correction to: Healthcare, Well-being, and the Regulation of Diversity in Healing

    • Emilie Cloatre, Nayeli Urquiza-Haas
    Pages C1-C1

  5. Bodies of Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. Temporal Bodies: Emergencies, Emergence, and Intersex Embodiment

      • Fae Garland, Mitchell Travis
      Pages 119-147

    3. Death Before Birth: Liminal Bodies and Legal Frameworks

      • Karolina Kuberska, Danielle Fuller, Jeannette Littlemore, Sheelagh McGuinness, Sarah Turner
      Pages 149-178

    4. Depathologising Gender: Vulnerability in Trans Health Law

      • Chris Dietz, Ruth Pearce
      Pages 179-203

    5. Feminist Activism in the Context of Clinical Trials and Drug Roll-Out

      • Aziza Ahmed
      Pages 205-224

  6. Reframing Health Law Through Bodies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225
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    2. Establishing Boundaries for Speculation About Artificial Wombs, Ectogenesis, Gender, and the Gestating Body

      • Claire Horn, Elizabeth Chloe Romanis
      Pages 227-254

    3. A Relational Responsibilities Framework for Children’s Healthcare Law

      • Jo Bridgeman
      Pages 255-280

    4. Embodied Integrity, Shaping Surgeries and the Profoundly Disabled Child

      • Marie Fox, Michael Thomson, Joshua Warburton
      Pages 281-314

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 315-316
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About this book

This book brings together a range of theoretical perspectives to consider fundamental questions of health law and the place of the body within it. Health, and more recently health law, has long been animated by discussions of particular bodies - whether they are disordered, diseased, or disabled - but each of these classificatory regimes claim some knowledge about the body. This edited collection aims to uncover and challenge the fundamental assumptions that underpin medico-legal knowledge claims about such bodies. This exploration is achieved through a mix of perspectives, but many contributors look towards embodiment as a perspective that understands bodies to be shaped by their institutional contexts. Much of this work alerts us to the idea that medical practitioners not only respond to healthcare issues, but also create them through their own understandings of ‘normality’ and ‘fixing’. Bodies, as a result, cannot be understood outside of, or as separate to, their medical and legal contexts. This compelling book pushes the possibility of new directions in health care and health justice.

Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Law, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Chris Dietz, Mitchell Travis, Michael Thomson

About the editors

Chris Dietz is Lecturer in Law and Social Justice at the School of Law, University of Leeds, UK.

Mitchell Travis is Lecturer in Law and Social Justice and Deputy Director for the Centre of Law and Social Justice, in the School of Law at the University of Leeds, UK.


Michael Thomson is Director of the School of Law's Centre for Law and Social Justice, University of Leeds, UK, where he is also a Chair in Health Law.

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