The Harm Paradox: Tort Law and the Unwanted Child in an Era of Choice

by Nicolette Priaulx

Book Overview

Offering the first comprehensive theoretical engagement with actions for wrongful conception and birth, The Harm Paradox provides readers with an insightful critique into the concepts of choice, responsibility and personhood.

Raising fundamental questions relating to birth, abortion, family planning and disability, Priaulx challenges the law's response that enforced parenthood is a harmless outcome and examines the concept of autonomy, gender...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844721078
• ISBN13: 9781844721078
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.2"