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This collection brings together a range of researchers from multiple disciplines to address the issue of choice in the context of reproduction, focussing upon narratives of consent as they pertain to reproductive subjects who all too often are rendered invisible by the law, by the healthcare professionals treating them, or by society.
List of contents
1. Diminishing Consent and Promoting Invisibility: Positioning Reproductive Subjects at the Margins of Reproductive Law and Policy (Rebecca Brione, Samantha Halliday and Jacqueline Nicholls) 2. I just want to be me: Women's Lived Experiences of Consent (Jacqueline Nicholls) 3. "It wasn't about what I wanted": The Consent Experiences of Women Living with Complex Social and Health Circumstances (Rebecca Brione) 4. What are the Odds? Invisible Women and the Construction of Risk in the Court of Protection: Agoraphobia, Pregnancy and Court Authorised Obstetric Intervention (Samantha Halliday) 5. Choice and Consent: Communicative Challenges faced in Multilingual Antenatal Settings (Emma Brooks) 6. "You speak and nobody hears": The Racialisation of Pregnancy and Birth in the UK (Eli Ansari and Katherine Maslowski) 7. Covid-19 and Beyond: (Re)Centring Consent in Maternity Service Policy Making (Anna Nelson) 8. Mandatory (M)othering: An Exploration of British Surrogates' Healthcare Experiences (Zaina Mahmoud) 9. Afterword: Making Reproductive Subjects Visible: The Role and Limits of Consent (Emma Cave)
About the author
Samantha Halliday is an Associate Professor in Biolaw at Durham Law School, Durham University, UK.
Rebecca Brione is completing a philosophy PhD at King's College London, UK. Previously she led the research programme for the charity Birthrights.
Jacqueline Nicholls is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Women's Health, University College London, UK.
