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"This is the first book to unpack the legal and ethical issues surrounding unauthorised intimate examinations during labour. The book uses feminist, socio-legal and philosophical tools to explore the issues of power, vulnerability and autonomy. The collection challenges the perception that the law adequately addresses different manifestations of unauthorised medical touch through the lens of women's experiences of unauthorised vaginal examinations during labour. The book unearths several broader themes that are of huge significance to lawyers and healthcare professionals such as the legal status of women and their bodies. The book raises questions about women's experiences during childbirth in hospital settings. It explores the status of women's bodies during labour and childbirth where too easily they become objectified, and it raises important issues around consent. The book highlights links to the law on sexual offences and women's loss of power under the medical gaze. The book includes contributions from leading feminist philosophers, medical professionals, and academics in medicine and law, and offers pioneering analysis relevant to lawyers and healthcare professionals with an interest in medical law and ethics; feminist theory; criminal law; tort law; and human rights law"--

Informed consent (Medical law) --- Pregnant women --- Medical examinations. --- Obstetrics --- Physician and patient. --- Childbirth. --- Consent, Informed --- Consent to treatment --- Disclosure, Medical --- Medical disclosure --- Treatment, Consent to --- Consent (Law) --- Medical ethics --- Medical personnel --- Patient education --- Involuntary treatment --- Patient refusal of treatment --- Birth --- Birthing --- Child birth --- Live birth --- Parturition --- Labor (Obstetrics) --- Doctor and patient --- Doctor-patient relationships --- Patient and doctor --- Patient and physician --- Patient-doctor relationships --- Patient-physician relationships --- Patients and doctors --- Patients and physicians --- Physician-patient relationships --- Physicians and patients --- Interpersonal relations --- Fear of doctors --- Narrative medicine --- Medical laws and legislation --- Expectant mothers --- Gravida --- Mothers --- Pregnancy --- Women --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Law and legislation. --- Malpractice --- Medical screening. --- Periodic health examinations. --- Self-examination, Medical. --- Medical examinations --- Medical self examination --- Diagnosis --- Medicine, Preventive --- Self-care, Health --- Health examinations --- Physical examinations (Medicine) --- Diagnostic services --- Mass medical screening --- Mass screening, Medical --- Screening, Medical --- Health risk assessment --- Medical & healthcare law --- Professional ethics. Deontology --- Human rights --- Medical law --- Gynaecology. Obstetrics --- Physician and patient --- Childbirth