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Time and Space in Medical Law: Building on Valverde’s Chronotopes of Law

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  1. See Valverde (2015, 177). References to page numbers in the comment are to this text unless otherwise indicated.

  2. See Veitch (2007).

  3. See, for example Hutchinson (2000).

  4. See Goodrich (1986).

  5. See Hirschkop (1992).

  6. See Jessop (2000).

  7. S 13(5) Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, now replaced with the need of a child for ‘supportive parenting’ by s 14(2) Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008.

  8. Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582 (McNair J at 592).

  9. See the comments of Lord Clyde in Hunter v Hanley 1955 SLT 213 (SC at 217).

  10. For example, in Kenya under the s 15 Medical Practitioners and Dentists Ordinance (1910).

  11. Mount Isa Mines v Pusey, (1970) 125 CLR 383 (HC of Australia per Windeyer J at 395).

  12. See, for example, the references to Aesculapius and Apollo in Clark v MacLennan [1983] 1 All ER 416 (HC per Peter Pain J at 433).

  13. [1986] 1AC 112 (CA and HL).

  14. Dr John Dunwoody MP, Hansard vol 732 HC Deb col 1099 (22 July 1966).

  15. S 1(1)(a) and s 2 Abortion Act 1967.

  16. See Lefebvre (1991).

  17. See for example Ken Loach’s film The Spirit of ‘45 (2013) and the ‘NHS sequence’ from the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics, directed by Danny Boyle. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01b7461. Accessed 12 August 2015.

  18. R v Central Birmingham HA, ex p Collier (CA per Stephen Brown LJ 1988) Unreported.

  19. Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11.

  20. S 1(3) Abortion Act 1967; see BPAS (2011).

  21. R v Cambridge Health Authority (ex parte B) [1995] EWCA Civ 49 (para [1]).

  22. Chester v Afshar [2004] UKHL 41 (para [83]).

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Harrington, J. Time and Space in Medical Law: Building on Valverde’s Chronotopes of Law . Fem Leg Stud 23, 361–367 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-015-9295-3

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