A Caring Jurisprudence
Listening to Patients at the Supreme Court
Seiten
1999
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-8476-9454-9 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-8476-9454-9 (ISBN)
Following the legal norms derived from the ethic of justice, the Court's deference to the knowledge of the medical profession and disregard of the knowledge of patients seemed inevitable. This text argues that it is possible to develop a jurisprudence that incorporates the knowledge of patients.
In deciding the abortion and physician assisted suicide cases, a majority of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court drew on medical knowledge to inform their opinions while dismissing the distinctively different knowledge offered by patients. Following the legal norms derived from the ethic of justice, the CourtOs deference toward the Ouniversal,O Oimpartial,O and OreasonedO knowledge of the medical profession and its disregard of the Oparticular,O Oinvolved,O and OemotionalO knowledge of patients seemed inevitable as well as justified. But was it? This book argues that it is both possible and proper to develop a jurisprudence capable of incorporating the knowledge of patients. Drawing on feminist scholarship, this book proposes a model for a Ocaring jurisprudenceO that integrates the ethic of justice and the ethic of care to ensure that patientsO knowledge is included in judicial decision making.
In deciding the abortion and physician assisted suicide cases, a majority of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court drew on medical knowledge to inform their opinions while dismissing the distinctively different knowledge offered by patients. Following the legal norms derived from the ethic of justice, the CourtOs deference toward the Ouniversal,O Oimpartial,O and OreasonedO knowledge of the medical profession and its disregard of the Oparticular,O Oinvolved,O and OemotionalO knowledge of patients seemed inevitable as well as justified. But was it? This book argues that it is both possible and proper to develop a jurisprudence capable of incorporating the knowledge of patients. Drawing on feminist scholarship, this book proposes a model for a Ocaring jurisprudenceO that integrates the ethic of justice and the ethic of care to ensure that patientsO knowledge is included in judicial decision making.
Susan M. Behuniak is professor of political science at Le Moyne College.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Three Versions of a Story: Medical, Legal, and Personal
Chapter 3 The Abortion Cases: The Merging of Medical and Legal Knowledge
Chapter 4 The Physician Assisted Suicide Cases: The Triumph of Medical Knowledge over Patients’ Knowledge
Chapter 5 A Jurisprudence of Justice and Care: Enabling the Court to Hear the Knowledge of Patients
Chapter 6 Listening to Patients: The Abortion and Physician Assisted Suicide Cases Revisited
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.10.1999 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 445 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie |
| Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8476-9454-2 / 0847694542 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8476-9454-9 / 9780847694549 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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