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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 | ||||||
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| 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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| 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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