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Square pegs in round holes : the dilemma of conjoined twins and individual rights

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Munro, Vanessa (2001) Square pegs in round holes : the dilemma of conjoined twins and individual rights. Social and Legal Studies, 10 (4). pp. 459-482.

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Abstract

The judgment in the English Court of Appeal case of Re A ( Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation) highlights forcefully the highly individualistic and abstract assumptions that commonly shape the deployment of rights discourse in liberal legal adjudication. Forced by the all-or-nothing nature of this discourse into a dilemma between perceiving of the twins as separate right-bearers or perceiving of the stronger twin, Jodie, as the singular right-bearer and of Mary, her weaker sibling, as a non-legal entity, the court chose the former option.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
Journal or Publication Title: Social and Legal Studies
Publisher: Sage
ISSN: 0964-6639
Official Date: 2001
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2001Published
30 June 2001Accepted
Volume: 10
Number: 4
Page Range: pp. 459-482
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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