A Caring Jurisprudence - Listening to Patients at the Supreme Court

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 'caring jurisprudence' that integrates the ethic of justice and the ethic of care to ensure that patients' knowledge is included in judicial decision making.

List of contents

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

About the author

By Susan M. Behuniak

Product details

• Authors: Susan M. Behuniak, Behuniak Susan M.
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.1999
• EAN: 9780847694549
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-9454-9
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 445 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Medicine, MEDICAL / General, LAW / Courts, LAW / Trial Practice, Courts & procedure, Legal systems: courts and procedures, Medicine and Nursing