Human Rights, State Sovereignty and Medical Ethics

Claude Cahn, Ph.D. (2014), Radboud University, Nijmegen, is Human Rights Adviser, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. He has over twenty years of human rights experience, and is widely published.

Excerpt of table of contents:
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction;
Chapter 1 Sovereignty, Autonomy and Right
1.1 Introduction
1.2 National Sovereignty
1.3 National Sovereignty and Personal Autonomy
1.4 National Sovereignty and International Law
1.5 National Sovereignty and International Human Rights Law
1.6 National Sovereignty between Personal Autonomy and the International Human Rights Law Order
1.7 Recovering Autonomy
1.8 Core Dilemmas
Chapter 2 Coercive Sterilization of Romani Women in the Czech and Slovak Republics
2.1 Czechoslovakia
2.2 Domestic Law
2.3 Sterilization as a Component of ‘Roma Policy’ in Czechoslovakia
2.4 The 1978 Charter 77 Action
2.5 The Pellar/Andrš Report
2.6 The Investigation by the Czechoslovak Prosecutors
2.7 Slovakia
2.8 The Czech Republic
2.9 Conclusion
Chapter 3 Triple Helix: The Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, Roma and Racial Discrimination
3.1 The Buckley/Chapman/Connors Jurisprudence
3.2 Expulsion
3.3 Discrimination
3.4 Pogrom
3.5 D.H. and Others v. Czech Republic
3.6 Muňoz Diaz, and Sejdić and Finci
3.7 Subsequent Judgments on Other Thematic Issues
3.8 Absence
3.9 Some Implications
Chapter 4 Identifying the Harm: Coercive Sterilization on Contested Interpretive Terrain
4.1 Extreme Harms
4.2 Informed Consent as a Core Principle of Human Rights in the Field of Bio-Medicine
4.3 The Council of Europe, Bio-medicine and Human Rights
4.4 Ruling on the Coercive Sterilization of Romani Women
4.5 The Court and International Law: Absorption, Refraction and Transformation of Norms
4.6 Conclusion
Chapter 5 Social Forces and National, Regional and International Human Rights Processes
5.1 Theorizing Social Action in Human Rights
5.2 The Social Field
5.3 Civil Society
5.4 Attention by International and Regional Organisations
5.5 Implications for Social Action in Human Rights
5.6 Conclusions
Conclusions; Summary; Bibliography; Index.