Foucault's Monsters and the Challenge of LawPDF电子书下载

1 Introduction 1

1.1 Themes 5

1.2 Chapter outlines 12

PART Ⅰ Theory/History/Monsters 19

2 Foucault’s theoretical framework 21

2.1 Introduction 21

2.2 Legal templates 22

2.3 Non-legal templates 24

2.4 The template of the monster 29

2.5 Monstrositv and monstrousness 31

2.6 Causation and responsibility 34

2.7 Natality 39

2.8 Conclusion 41

3 Foucault’s monsters as genealogy: the abnormal individual 43

3.1 Introduction 43

3.2 A genealogy of the abnormal individual 45

3.3 Challenging Foucault’s history 53

3.4 Conclusion 56

4 An English legal history of monsters 58

4.1 Introduction 58

4.2 The late Middle Ages: inaugurating legal monsters 61

4.3 The Renaissance: flights of fantasy 69

4.4 The Enlightenment: the final throes 79

4.5 Conclusion 83

PART Ⅱ Contemporary monsters 85

5 Changing sex: the problem of transsexuality 87

5.1 Introduction 87

5.2 The emergence of a medico-legal ‘problem’ 88

5.3 Determining legal sex and the spectre of the monster 91

5.4 A biological approach 91

5.5 Reform jurisprudence 99

5.6 Conclusion 107

6 Sharing bodies: the problem of conjoined twins 111

6.1 Introduction 111

6.2 Constructing legal personhood 114

6.3 A critique of legal personhood 116

6.4 Pregnancy as non-monster concorporation 122

6.5 The promise o f conjoined twins and the challenge of law 123

6.6 Innocent monsters 125

6.7 Conclusion 126

7 Admixing embryos: the problem of human/animal hybrids 129

7.1 Introduction 129

7.2 Human/animal hybridity as contemporary crisis 130

7.3 Legal regulation o f human/animal admixed embryos 133

7.4 The human/animal admixed embryo as monster 138

7.5 The promise of human/animal admixed embryos and the challenge of law 141

7.6 Conclusion 143

8 Conclusion 145

Bibliography 153

Index 179