Caring Autonomy
Subtitle: European Human Rights Law and the Challenge of Individualism
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781107081772
Subjects: Right to die, law and legislation; Individualism; Human rights, europe
Description: "Despite its absence in the written text of the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights now regularly uses the concept of autonomy when deciding cases concerning assisted dying, sexuality and reproductive rights, self-determination, fulfilment of choices and control over body and mind. But is the concept of autonomy as expressed in the ECtHR reasoning an appropriate tool for regulating reproduction or medical practice? Caring Autonomy reveals and evaluates the type of individual the ECtHR expresses and shapes through its autonomy-based case law. It claims that from a social and ethical perspective, the current individualistic interpretation of the concept of autonomy is inadequate, and proposes a new reading of the concept that is rooted in the acknowledgment and appreciation of human interdependence and the importance of interpersonal trust and care"--