Human Rights And The Body

Author : Annabelle Mooney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317119821

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Human Rights and the Body by Annabelle Mooney Pdf

Human Rights and the Body is a response to the crisis in human rights, to the very real concern that without a secure foundation for the concept of human rights, their very existence is threatened. While there has been consideration of the discourses of human rights and the way in which the body is written upon, research in linguistics has not yet been fully brought to bear on either human rights or the body. Drawing on legal concepts and aspects of the law of human rights, Mooney aims to provide a universally defensible set of human rights and a foundation, or rather a frame, for them. She argues that the proper frames for human rights are firstly the human body, seen as an index reliant on the natural world, secondly the globe and finally, language. These three frames generate rights to food, water, sleep and shelter, environmental protection and a right against dehumanization. This book is essential reading for researchers and graduate students in the fields of human rights and semiotics of law.

Author : Annabelle Mooney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:891836932

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Human Rights and the Body by Annabelle Mooney Pdf

Author : Muireann Quigley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107036864

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Self-Ownership, Property Rights, and the Human Body by Muireann Quigley Pdf

How should the law deal with the challenges of advancing biotechnology? This book is a philosophical and legal re-analysis.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : MINN:31951D037451837

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The Core International Human Rights Treaties by Anonim Pdf

This publication reproduces the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the nine core international human rights treaties and their optional protocols in a user-friendly format to make them more accessible, in particular to government officials, civil society, human rights defenders, legal practitioners, scholars, individual citizens and others with an interest in human rights norms and standards.

Author : Rohan John Hardcastle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1474200591

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Law and the Human Body by Rohan John Hardcastle Pdf

Do you own your body? Advances in science and the development of genetic databases have added an aura of modern controversy to this long-standing and, as yet, unresolved problem. In particular, English law governing separated human tissue (including organs, DNA and cell-lines) is unsatisfactory. Despite the enactment of the Human Tissue Act 2004 UK, it remains uncertain what property rights living persons can claim over tissue separated from their bodies. The development of clear legal principles is necessary to protect the rights of individuals while also enabling the efficient use of such ma.

Author : E. Richard Gold
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Body, Human
ISBN : 0878406611

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Body Parts by E. Richard Gold Pdf

In Body Parts, E. Richard Gold examines whether the body and materials derived from it--such as human organs and DNA--should be thought of as market commodities and subject to property law. Analyzing a series of court decisions concerning property rights, Gold explores whether the language and assumptions of property law can help society determine who has rights to human biological materials. Gold observes that the commercial opportunities unleashed by advances in biotechnology present a challenge to the ways that society has traditionally valued the human body and human health. In a balanced discussion of both commercial and individual perspectives, Gold asserts the need to understand human biological materials within the context of human values, rather than economic interests. This perceptive book will be welcomed by scholars and other professionals engaged in questions regarding bioethics, applied ethics, the philosophy of value, and property and intellectual property rights. Given the international aspects of both intellectual property law and biotechnology, this book will be of interest throughout the world and especially valuable in common-law (most English-speaking) countries.

Author : Chris Dietz,Mitchell Travis,Michael Thomson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030422004

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A Jurisprudence of the Body by Chris Dietz,Mitchell Travis,Michael Thomson Pdf

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.

Author : United Nations. General Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Human rights
ISBN : OCLC:904283765

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights by United Nations. General Assembly Pdf

Author : Sean Sweeney,Ian Hodder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521782929

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The Body by Sean Sweeney,Ian Hodder Pdf

The Body is a multidisciplinary collection of essays from a number of world-renowned experts on the topic of the body arising from the 14th annual Darwin College lecture series. It deals with our understanding of the modern body from a number of different standpoints. The opening essays deal with topics of developmental biology of the body, the human genome project, and in vitro fertilisation and the possibility of human clones. Other essays explore the subject of bodies and the criminal mind, dead bodies and human rights, science and the politics of incarnation, bodies at the boundaries of pornography and art and the body in archeology.

Author : Rosa Freedman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135115142

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The United Nations Human Rights Council by Rosa Freedman Pdf

The United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to replace the UN Commission on Human Rights. The Council’s mandate and founding principles demonstrate that one of the main aims, at its creation, was for the Council to overcome the Commission’s flaws. Despite the need to avoid repeating its predecessor's failings, the Council’s form, nature and many of its roles and functions are strikingly similar to those of the Commission. This book examines the creation and formative years of the United Nations Human Rights Council and assesses the extent to which the Council has fulfilled its mandate. International law and theories of international relations are used to examine the Council and its functions. Council sessions, procedures and mechanisms are analysed in-depth, with particular consideration given to whether the Council has become politicised to the same extent as the Commission. Whilst remaining aware of the key differences in their functions, Rosa Freedman compares the work of the Council to that of treaty-based human rights bodies. The author draws on observations from her attendance at Council proceedings in order to offer a unique account of how the body works in practice. The United Nations Human Rights Council will be of great interest to students and scholars of human rights law and international relations, as well as lawyers, NGOs and relevant government agencies.

Author : Surya P. Subedi, OBE, QC (Hon)
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351778961

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The Effectiveness of the UN Human Rights System by Surya P. Subedi, OBE, QC (Hon) Pdf

9.4 Addressing the challenges brought about by a multi-polar world

Author : Leena Grover
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107006546

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UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies by Leena Grover Pdf

An analysis of the UN human rights treaty bodies, their methods of interpretation, their effectiveness and issues of legitimacy.

Author : Juliet Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134097234

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Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights by Juliet Rogers Pdf

Scenes of violence and incisions into the flesh inform the demand for law. The scene of little girls being held down in practices of female circumcision has been a defining and definitive image that demands the attention of human rights, and the intervention of law. But the investment in protecting women and little girls from such a cut is not all that it seems. Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights: Female Circumcision, Torture and Sacred Flesh considers how such images come to inform law and the investment of advocates of law in an imagination of this scene. Drawing on psychoanalytic and postcolonial theory, and accompanying ideas in political theology, Juliet Rogers examines the language, imagery and excitement that accompanies recent initiatives to legislate against what is called 'female genital mutilation'. The author compliments this examination with a consideration of the scene of torture exposed in images from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. Rogers argues that the modes of fascination and excitement that accompany scenes of torture and female circumcision betray the fantasy of a political condition against which the subject of liberal law is imagined; this is subjectivity in a state of non-mutilation, non-prohibition or, in a psychoanalytic idiom, non-castration. To support the fantasy of this subject, the mutilated subject, the authors suggests, is rendered as flesh cut from the democratic nation state, deserving of only selective human rights, or none at all.

Author : Andrea Cornwall,Sonia Correa,Susie Jolly
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848136465

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Development with a Body by Andrea Cornwall,Sonia Correa,Susie Jolly Pdf

'We used to talk about development with a human face. We should be talking about development with a body' Arit Oku-Egbas, African Regional Sexuality Resource Centre, Nigeria Sex and sexuality have always had a place at the heart of the development agenda - from concerns regarding population and environment, to practices in education and efforts for protecting reproductive health and rights. Yet this agenda has largely focused on negative dimensions of sexuality - disease, risk, violation - rather than positive aspects, including rights to sexual fulfillment, wellbeing and pleasure. The shift towards a rights-based approach to development has brought the human rights dimensions of sexuality into clearer view, and consequently the need to address discriminatory laws and violations of the human rights of those whose sexual identity and practices diverge from dominant sexual orders/norms. This book offers compelling insights into contemporary challenges and transformative possibilities of the struggle for sexual rights. It combines the conceptual with the political, and offering inspiring examples of practical interventions and campaigns that emphasize the positive dimensions of sexuality. It brings together reflections and experiences of researchers, activists and practitioners from Brazil, India, Nigeria, Peru, Serbia, South Africa, Turkey, the UK and Zambia. From political discourse on sex and masculinity to sex work and trafficking, from HIV and sexuality to struggles for legal reform and citizenship, the authors explore the gains of creating stronger linkages between sexuality, human rights and development.

Author : Jesse Wall
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198727989

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Being and Owning by Jesse Wall Pdf

When part of a person's body is separated from them, or when a person dies, it is unclear what legal status the item of bodily material is able to obtain. A 'no property rule' which states that there is no property in the human body was first recorded in an English judgment in 1882. Claims based on property rights in the human body and its parts have failed on the basis that the human body is not the subject of property. Despite a recent series of exceptions to the 'no property rule', the law still has no clear answer as to the legal status of the body or its material. In this book, Wall examines the appropriate legal status of bodily material, and in doing so, develops a way for the law to address disputes over the use and storage of bodily material that, contrary to the current trend, resists the application of property law. Wall assesses when a person ought to be able to possess, control, use, or profit from, his or her own bodily material or the bodily material of another person. Bodily material may be valuable because it retains a functional unity with the body or is a material resource that is in short supply. With this in mind, Wall measures the extent to which property law can represent the rights and duties that protects the entitlement that a person may exercise in bodily material, and identifies the limits to the appropriate application of property law. An alternative to property law is developed with reference to the right of bodily integrity and the right to privacy.