| A Caring Jurisprudence: Listening to Patients at the Supreme Court Contributor(s): Behuniak, Susan M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0847694542 ISBN-13: 9780847694549 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $119.79 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 1999 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice - Political Science | American Government - State |
| Dewey: 344.730 |
| LCCN: 99016198 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.26" W x 8.98" (0.99 lbs) 208 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In deciding the abortion and physician assisted suicide cases, a majority of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court drew on medical knowledge to inform their opinions while dismissing the distinctively different knowledge offered by patients. Following the legal norms derived from the ethic of justice, the CourtOs deference toward the Ouniversal, O Oimpartial, O and OreasonedO knowledge of the medical profession and its disregard of the Oparticular, O Oinvolved, O and OemotionalO knowledge of patients seemed inevitable as well as justified. But was it? 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 Ocaring jurisprudenceO that integrates the ethic of justice and the ethic of care to ensure that patientsO knowledge is included in judicial decision mak |