This book brings together a range of theoretical perspectives to consider fundamental questions of health law and the place of the body within it. Health, and m

Issues that are drawn from, and bear on, disciplines including philosophy, law and legal studies, feminist studies, social and political theory, communication s

Explains why lawyers seeking gender progress from primary legal materials should start with the common law.

The writ of habeas corpus is the principal means by which state prisoners, many on death row, attack the constitutionality of their conviction in federal courts

Human Rights and the Body is a response to the crisis in human rights, to the very real concern that without a secure foundation for the concept of human rights