Gendered Power Relations and Informed Consent: The I.V. v. Bolivia Case

In a landmark decision handed down on November 30, 2016, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights analyzed the foundations of the right to informed consent. The court held Bolivia responsible for the forced sterilization of I.V., an immigrant woman from Peru, and recognized the importance of persona...

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Autores principales: Hevia, Martín, Constantin, Andrés
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Harvard University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6293361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30568413
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spelling pubmed-62933612018-12-19 Gendered Power Relations and Informed Consent: The I.V. v. Bolivia Case Hevia, Martín Constantin, Andrés Health Hum Rights Research-Article In a landmark decision handed down on November 30, 2016, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights analyzed the foundations of the right to informed consent. The court held Bolivia responsible for the forced sterilization of I.V., an immigrant woman from Peru, and recognized the importance of personal autonomy as a constitutive element of personality. This paper discusses the ethical foundations of the decision and explains the relevance of this judgment in furthering women’s rights in Latin America. Harvard University Press 2018-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6293361/ /pubmed/30568413 Text en Copyright © 2018 Hevia and Constantin. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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