The Criminalization of Abortion in the West : Its Origins in Medieval Law /

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"Anyone who wants to understand how abortion has been treated historically in the western legal tradition must first come to terms with two quite different but interrelated historical trajectories. On one hand, there is the ancient Judeo-Christian condemnation of prenatal homicide as a wrong wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Müller, Wolfgang P., 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Aborter > juridik och lagstiftning > Västeuropa.
Avortement > Europe > Moyen âge.
Avortement > Droit > Europe > Moyen âge.
Law - Europe, except U.K.
Law, Politics & Government.
Law - Non-U.S.
Kriminalisierung.
Schwangerschaftsabbruch.
Strafrecht.
Recht
Schwangerschaftsabbruch
Law, Medieval.
Abortion > Law and legislation.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Droit medieval.
Legislation, Medical > history
Abortion, Induced > legislation & jurisprudence
Abortion, Criminal > history
Abortion > Law and legislation > History.
Abortion > Law and legislation > Europe, Western.
Europa.
Westeuropa.
Western Europe.
Europe.
Europe
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The earliest proponents of criminalization
  • Early venues of criminalization
  • Chief agents of criminalization
  • Principal arguments in favor of criminalization
  • Objections to criminalization
  • Abortion experts and expertise
  • Abortion in the criminal courts of the ius commune
  • Forms of punishments in the criminal courts of the ius commune
  • The frequency of criminal prosecutions.

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