The multiple meanings of ‘risk’: Views on the abortion of non-viable fetuses among Brazilian medical doctors and magistrates
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| contents | The multiple meanings of ‘risk’: Views on the abortion of non-viable fetuses among Brazilian medical doctors and magistrates Juliana Lopes de Macedo Antropología Risk Abortion Legal Field Medical Field 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 abor-tion decisions to doctors. 2015 artículo científico 1809-4341 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=406941919006 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=4069 VIBRANT - Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology application/pdf Associação Brasileira de Antropologia VIBRANT - Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (Brasil) Num.1 Vol.12 |
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| spellingShingle | The multiple meanings of ‘risk’: Views on the abortion of non-viable fetuses among Brazilian medical doctors and magistrates Juliana Lopes de Macedo Antropología Risk Abortion Legal Field Medical Field The multiple meanings of ‘risk’: Views on the abortion of non-viable fetuses among Brazilian medical doctors and magistrates Juliana Lopes de Macedo Antropología Risk Abortion Legal Field Medical Field 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 abor-tion decisions to doctors. 2015 artículo científico 1809-4341 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=406941919006 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=4069 VIBRANT - Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology application/pdf Associação Brasileira de Antropologia VIBRANT - Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (Brasil) Num.1 Vol.12 |
| title | The multiple meanings of ‘risk’: Views on the abortion of non-viable fetuses among Brazilian medical doctors and magistrates |
| topic | Antropología Risk Abortion Legal Field Medical Field |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=406941919006 |