Relations and Health Law
This one-day workshop explores the theme of relations in the context of health law. Given the traditional academic concern in health law with the position of the patient vis-à-vis health care professionals, analysis of relations has tended to focus on the individual and the perceived shortcomings of a strictly liberal understanding of the notion of autonomy. Consequently, and building on work on law and relational autonomy (Nedelsky 2011), ideas such as the relational self (Herring 2019) and relational consent (Maclean 2013) have been developed as ways of stressing the social embeddedness of individuals and arguing for a health law that promotes such an understanding, through, for example, prioritising caring relationships.
This workshop’s aim is to broaden and deepen the analysis of relations in the field of health law. While this will involve critical engagement with notions such as the relational self, the objective is also to explore the workshop theme in contexts beyond the self and relationships involving health care professionals/patients/carers. The need for such analysis responds, inter alia, to pressing contemporary issues of public and global health; the role of the nation in health care; the increasing complexity and diversity of relationships within health care; and the structural roots of relations of power in the context of health. Comprehending those kinds of issues, and the manner of law’s interaction with them, demands the development of new modes of analysis and theoretical frameworks that move beyond existing paradigms.
Book your place via TicketSource by Monday 28 October 2024
Contact for inquiries: Dr. Kenneth Veitch
Workshop programme
9.00-9.10 Introduction
9.10-10.40 Session 1: Solidarity, Relations and Health Care
Chair: Professor Jo Bridgeman (Law, University of Sussex)
Professor Barbara Prainsack and Mr. Elia Weiss (Political Science, University of Vienna)
When Solidarity Turns Bad: Problematic Forms of Solidarity in Healthcare
Dr. Peter West-Oram (BSMS, University of Sussex)
Global Public Health and the Role of Unconventional Solidarity Groups
10.40-11.00 Break
11.00-12.30 Session 2: The Nation, Relations and Health Law
Chair: Dr. Maria Moscati (Law, University of Sussex)
Professor John Harrington (Law, Cardiff University)
Unquestionably British? Opt-Out Organ Donation and the Gift Relationship in a Devolved UK
Dr. Marianna Iliadou (Law, University of Sussex)
Nationalism and Surrogacy: Exploring Complex Relations in Health Law
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-3.00 Session 3: Regulating Relations in the Context of Health: Is Law Up to the Job?
Chair: Dr. Kenneth Veitch (Law, University of Sussex)
Dr. David Benbow (Law, Sheffield University)
Embodied, Affective and Relational Selves and Anorexia Nervosa
Dr. Maria Moscati (Law, University of Sussex)
Hormones, Relations and the Law
3.00-3.15 Break
3.15-4.45 Session 4: Power Dynamics, Relations and Health Law
Chair: Dr. Ruth Stirton (Law, University of Sussex)
Dr. Juliana Cesario Alvim Gomes (Legal Studies, Central European University) and Dr. Marina Cortez (Researcher, CSO Instituto Eqüit, Rio de Janeiro)
The Role of the Federal Council of Medicine in Regulating Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Brazil
Dr. Kenneth Veitch (Law, University of Sussex)
Exploring the ‘gift relationship’ in Contemporary Health Care
4.45-5.00 Concluding Reflections and Next Steps