The Right to Bodily Integrity

Abstract

Contents: Introduction. Part I Bodies, Rights and Integrity: Bodily and moral integrity rights, Jill Marshall My body, your body, our bodies, Jonathan Herring and P.L. Chau Against the right to bodily integrity: of cyborgs and human rights, Gowri Ramachandran. Part II Pregnancy and Reproduction: A defense of abortion, Judith Jarvis Thomson A feminist, Kantian conception of the right to bodily integrity: the cases of abortion and homosexuality, Helga Varden Sex and the sacred: sterilization and bodily integrity in English and Canadian law, Kristin Savell. Part III Altering Children's Bodies: The child's right to bodily integrity, Robert Ludbrook Between prophylaxis and child abuse: the ethics of neonatal male circumcision, Michael Benatar and David Benatar Routine (non-religious) neonatal circumcision and bodily integrity: a transatlantic dialogue, Wim Dekkers Medicine's challenge to relativism: the case of female genital mutilation, Loretta M. Kopelman Bodily integrity and the surgical management of intersex, Emily Grabham Forever small: the strange case of Ashley X, Eva Feder Kittay. Part IV Transplantation: Transplantation and rights over our bodies, T.M. Wilkinson Confiscating live body parts, Cecile Fabre Hand transplants and bodily integrity, Jenny Slatman and Guy Widdershoven. Part V Controversial Modifications and Surgeries: Should we prevent non-therapeutic mutilation and extreme body modification?, Thomas Schramme Body dysmorphic disorder, radical surgery and the limits of consent, Tracey Elliott Amputees by choice: body integrity identity disorder and the ethics of amputation, Tim Bayne and Neil Levy Transsexualism and gender reassignment surgery, Heather Draper and Neil Evans Female genital mutilation and cosmetic surgery: regulating non-therapeutic body modification, Sally Sheldon and Stephen Wilkinson. Part VI Experimentation and Dead Bodies: Proxy research consent and the decisionally impaired: science, the common good, and bodily integrity, Karen J. Maschke Last rights: the ethics of research on the dead, T.M. Wilkinson Consent and the use of the bodies of the dead, T.M. Wilkinson. Index.