The multiple meanings of 'risk': views on the abortion of non-viable fetuses among Brazilian medical doctors and magistrates

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Autor(a) principal: Macedo,Juliana Lopes de
Data de Publicação: 2015
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Vibrant
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Resumo: The article seeks to understand the conceptions of 'risk' produced in the medical field as they come to be interpreted in the legal field. It draws on legal decisions concerning authorization for aborting fetuses bearing anomalies incompatible with life, and on non-directive interviews with medical doctors and magistrates. The category of 'risk' was found to be subject to considerable manipulation by both doctors and magistrates in being deployed as moral justification for the abortion of non-viable fetuses. Abortion is thus displaced from the sphere of individual choice to the domain of therapeutic abortion. The article also highlights the polyvalence of risk discourse, since this notion is deployed both to affirm and to deny legal authorizations for abortion, and to attribute responsibility for abortion decisions to doctors.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The multiple meanings of 'risk': views on the abortion of non-viable fetuses among Brazilian medical doctors and magistrates
title The multiple meanings of 'risk': views on the abortion of non-viable fetuses among Brazilian medical doctors and magistrates
spellingShingle The multiple meanings of 'risk': views on the abortion of non-viable fetuses among Brazilian medical doctors and magistrates
Macedo,Juliana Lopes de
Risk
Abortion
Legal Field
Medical Field
title_short The multiple meanings of 'risk': views on the abortion of non-viable fetuses among Brazilian medical doctors and magistrates
title_full The multiple meanings of 'risk': views on the abortion of non-viable fetuses among Brazilian medical doctors and magistrates
title_fullStr The multiple meanings of 'risk': views on the abortion of non-viable fetuses among Brazilian medical doctors and magistrates
title_full_unstemmed The multiple meanings of 'risk': views on the abortion of non-viable fetuses among Brazilian medical doctors and magistrates
title_sort The multiple meanings of 'risk': views on the abortion of non-viable fetuses among Brazilian medical doctors and magistrates
author Macedo,Juliana Lopes de
author_facet Macedo,Juliana Lopes de
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Macedo,Juliana Lopes de
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Risk
Abortion
Legal Field
Medical Field
topic Risk
Abortion
Legal Field
Medical Field
description The article seeks to understand the conceptions of 'risk' produced in the medical field as they come to be interpreted in the legal field. It draws on legal decisions concerning authorization for aborting fetuses bearing anomalies incompatible with life, and on non-directive interviews with medical doctors and magistrates. The category of 'risk' was found to be subject to considerable manipulation by both doctors and magistrates in being deployed as moral justification for the abortion of non-viable fetuses. Abortion is thus displaced from the sphere of individual choice to the domain of therapeutic abortion. The article also highlights the polyvalence of risk discourse, since this notion is deployed both to affirm and to deny legal authorizations for abortion, and to attribute responsibility for abortion decisions to doctors.
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