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Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law, by Charles Foster. Oxford: Hart, 2011, xxxi + 178 + (index) 5pp (£30.00 paperback). ISBN 978-1-84946-177-1.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Rosie Harding
Rosie Harding*
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University of Birmingham
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Legal Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , December 2012 , pp. 668 - 673
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Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 2012

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46 Foster, C Choosing Life, Choosing Death: The Tyranny of Autonomy in Medical Law and Ethics (Oxford: Hart, 2009).Google Scholar

47 Foster, C Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law (Oxford: Hart, 2011) p 110.Google Scholar

48 Ibid, pp 177–178.

49 Ibid, p 6.

50 Ibid, p 8.

51 Ibid, p 18.

52 See, eg, Churchland, PS ‘Human dignity from a neurophilosophical perspective’ in Pellegrino, ED, Schulman, A and Merrill, TW (eds) Human Dignity and Bioethics (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009) pp 99–121.Google Scholar

53 Foster, , above n 47, p 15.Google Scholar

54 Ibid, p 19.

55 Dempsey, K ‘Who gets the best deal from marriage: women or men?’ (2002) 38 Journal of Sociology 91.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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57 See Harding, R ‘Sir Mark Potter and the protection of the traditional family: why same sex marriage is (still) a feminist issue’ (2007) 15 Feminist Legal Studies 223,CrossRefGoogle Scholar for an argument about the limitations of Art 8.

58 Ewick, P and Silbey, S The Common Place of Law (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998) p 47.Google Scholar

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60 Ibid, p 169.

61 Dworkin, R Life's Dominion: An Argument about Abortion, Euthanasia and Individual Freedom (New York: Knopf, 1993)Google Scholar ch 8.

62 Mental Capacity Act 2005, s 26 (hereafter ‘MCA’)

63 Ibid, s 4.

64 Ibid, s 25(1).

65 Foster, above n 47, p 169.

66 MCA s 25(3).

67 Ibid, s 3

68 Ibid, s 25(2)(c).

69 Herring, J ‘Review of C Foster Choosing Life, Choosing Death, the Tyranny of Autonomy in Medical Law and Ethics ’ (2010) 30 Legal Studies 330.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

70 Eg R ( On the application of McDonald)(Appellant) v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (Respondent) [2011] UKSC 33.

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