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The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law: Moving Beyond Binaries
This book explores the conceptual spaces and socio-legal context which mental capacity laws inhabit. It will be seen that these norms are created and reproduced through the binaries that pervade mental capacity laws in liberal legal jurisdictions- such as capacity/incapacity; autonomy/paternalism etc.
| Author(s) | By Beverley Clough (Law Department at the University of Leeds). |
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| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
| Pages | 200 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 31 May 2023 |
| Availability | POD |
This book explores the conceptual spaces and socio-legal context which mental capacity laws inhabit. It will be seen that these norms are created and reproduced through the binaries that pervade mental capacity laws in liberal legal jurisdictions- such as capacity/incapacity; autonomy/paternalism etc.
Introduction 1. The Conceptual Terrain: Spatial Dynamics and Law 2. Spatial Dynamics and Disability: Interrogating the Terrain of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 3. Capacity/Incapacity: A Dynamic Disability Critique 4. Care/Disability - Challenging the Divid
Beverley Clough is based in the Law Department at the University of Leeds.
