Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Cross-Cutting Observations
- Part II Public Good Rights
- Part III Status Rights
- Part IV New Technology Rights
- Part V Autonomy and Integrity Rights
- The Right to Bodily Integrity
- 28 The Right to Bodily Integrity
- 29 From Bodily Rights to Personal Rights
- The Right to Mental Integrity
- Rights Relating to Enforced Disappearance
- The Right to Diplomatic and Consular Protection
- Part VI Governance Rights
- Index
29 - From Bodily Rights to Personal Rights
from The Right to Bodily Integrity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Cross-Cutting Observations
- Part II Public Good Rights
- Part III Status Rights
- Part IV New Technology Rights
- Part V Autonomy and Integrity Rights
- The Right to Bodily Integrity
- 28 The Right to Bodily Integrity
- 29 From Bodily Rights to Personal Rights
- The Right to Mental Integrity
- Rights Relating to Enforced Disappearance
- The Right to Diplomatic and Consular Protection
- Part VI Governance Rights
- Index
Summary
The right to bodily integrity (RBI) may seem inapt for inclusion in this volume, which is supposed to address new human rights, for as A. M. Viens notes, the RBI is a long-standing fixture in the philosophical and legal discussion of rights. However, Viens does, I think, make a good case for the right’s inclusion here. Not only does he note the increasing recognition of a new right to genital integrity derived from the more general RBI, he also argues for a new conceptualisation of the RBI itself: he argues that we ought to decompose the RBI into several constituent rights, delineated according to the different values from which they derive – rights to bodily autonomy, bodily dignity, bodily ownership, well-being, and so on.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human RightsRecognition, Novelty, Rhetoric, pp. 378 - 384Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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