Abortion, Doctors and the Law: Some Aspects of the Legal Regulation of Abortion in England from 1803 to 1982

Abortion, Doctors and the Law: Some Aspects of the Legal Regulation of Abortion in England from 1803 to 1982
Published: 2002-06-20 | ISBN: 0521894131, 052134574X | PDF | 228 pages | 5.71 MB

Ranging from the start of the nineteenth century to the 1980s, this book focuses on the evolution of the edict and medical practice of abortion in England. Little literary attention has hitherto been given to the exhibition and scope of abortion law in England, the shaping influence of the medical profession, and the striking of the law on medical practice. Consequently, Dr Keown considers the consummation of abortion by doctors, and the predominance the medical profession had on the limitation of the law in the nineteenth hundred and on its relaxation in the twentieth. The work does not deal directly with the legal status of the unborn child, the rights and duties of its parents and of the doctors involved in the providing of abortion or the question of the desirability of amend. Rather, adopting a socio-legal prospect, it considers what the scope of the interdiction of abortion has been and focuses on aspects of professional influence on the expansion of that prohibition, and of professional habit thereunder.