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Kirsty Keywood

Manchester University, Law, Department Member

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Papers by Kirsty Keywood

Warning: health ‘choices’ can kill

by Kirsty Keywood and Margaret Flynn

The Journal of Adult Protection, 2003

March 2001 heralded the presentation to parliament by the secretary of state for health of the Wh... more

Healthcare decision-making by adults with learning disabilities: ongoing agendas, future challenges

by Kirsty Keywood and Margaret Flynn

Psychiatry, 2009

This contribution reviews recent developments in the law and policy of healthcare decision-making... more This contribution reviews recent developments in the law and policy of healthcare decision-making by, with and for adults with learning disabilities. In particular, it considers the impact of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the reforms outlined in the Department of Health's (2005) White Paper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say: A New Direction for Community Services, and the Local Authority Circular (2008) Transforming Social Care. Pressing issues such as the concept of choice for vulnerable adults and the challenges for professionals in assessing decision-making ability are assumed within these policy frameworks. Other issues, such as the importance of creating time to engage and involve vulnerable adults in decision-making about their health, continue to present challenges for healthcare policy and practice.

The palliative care experiences of adults with learning disabilities/intellectual disability: The implications for ethical decision making

by Kirsty Keywood and Margaret Flynn

International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 2009

Abstract: This paper presents some of the ethical challenges facing services supporting adults wi... more

Critical decisions and questions regarding serious case reviews – ideas from North West England

by Kirsty Keywood and Margaret Flynn

The Journal of Adult Protection, 2011

" People like us don't have babies. " 1 Learning disability, prospective parenthood and legal transformations

Landmark Cases in Medical Law

Published in Herring and Wall (eds) Landmark Cases in Medical Law, Hart Publishing: 2015.

Vulnerability and the Criminal Law: The Implications of Brazier's Research for Safeguarding People at Risk

The vulnerable adult experiment: Situating vulnerability in adult safeguarding law and policy

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2017

This article explores the intersection of English adult protection law and policy as it impacted ... more This article explores the intersection of English adult protection law and policy as it impacted on the lives of people with mental disabilities. It evaluates developments that were premised on the notion of the 'vulnerable adult', in light of recent theoretical interrogation of vulnerability and the normative shifts in law and policy advocated by the UNCRPD. I argue that the policy and legal conceptions of vulnerability developed in England and Wales, if reworked, have the potential to transform our understanding of what it is to be vulnerable into a more radical and socially-grounded framework for adult safeguarding. This article concludes with some reflections on what further conceptual and policy work must be done in order to effect that transformation.

Self-Neglect: A Legal Perspective

In Self Neglect and Service Refusal Part of the Safeguarding Agenda 15 Nov 2010 15 Nov 2010 London 2010, 2010

The palliative care experiences of adults with learning disabilities/intellectual disability: The implications for ethical decision making

International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 2009

Abstract: This paper presents some of the ethical challenges facing services supporting adults wi... more

My Body and Other Stories: Anorexia Nervosa and the Legal Politics of Embodiment

Social & Legal Studies, 2000

... EMBODIMENT KIRSTY KEYWOOD University of Liverpool, UK ABSTRACT ... trust between patient and ... more

Safeguarding Reproductive Health? The Inherent Jurisdiction, Contraception, and Mental Incapacity

Medical Law Review, 2011

Rectification of incorrect documentation under the Mental Health Act 1983

The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 1996

ABSTRACT

Critical Decisions and Questions Regarding Serious Case Reviews - Ideas from the North West: Briefing Paper 3

NEAREST RELATIVES AND INDEPENDENT MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES: ADVOCATING FOR MENTAL HEALTH?

In Gostin, McHale, Fennell, Mackaym, Bartlett, Principles of Mental Health Law, 2010

More Than a Woman? Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Medical Law

Feminist Legal Studies, 2000

This article examines law's representation of embodied female identity in the context of two medi... more This article examines law's representation of embodied female identity in the context of two medical law cases, R. v. Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, ex parte Blood and B v. Croydon Health Authority. Through an examination of contemporary critiques of female embodiment, in particular the work of Judith Butler, two discursive strategies are suggested for their potential to reconfigure the sexed subject within legal discourse. Firstly, the act of transgressionthe flight from purportedly fixed subject positions -can be read in the case of Blood and calls into question law's ability to contain and sustain sexed identity as prediscursive and immutable. Secondly, the exposure of the historical formation of the female subjects of legal discourse, demonstrated through a genealogical reading of B v. Croydon Health Authority, contributes to feminist theoretical project to destabilise traditional gender categories and enable us to think beyond the category of 'Woman'.

Disabling Sex: Some Legal Thinking About Sterilisation, Learning Disability and Embodiment

Well Women: The Gendered Nature of Healthcare Provision 2002, A Morris and S Nott (eds)

Gatekeepers, Proxies, Advocates? The Evolving Role of Carers Under Mental Health and Mental Capacity Reform Proposals

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 2003

Supported to be Sexual: Developing Sexual Rights for People with Learning Disabilities

Tizard Learning Disability Review, 2003

This article explores criminal law reform proposals on the law relating to sexual offences, sched... more This article explores criminal law reform proposals on the law relating to sexual offences, scheduled for debate in the current Parliamentary session, in order to illustrate the current tension between sexual empowerment and protection of people with learning disabilities from sexual violence. It suggests that law's response to the sexuality of people with learning disabilities, evidenced by the Sexual Offences Bill currently before Parliament, will always be inadequate for as long it is characterised as choosing between protection and empowerment. An alternative conception of sexual rights has the protection to provide a fuller and more persuasive account of the sexuality of men and women with learning disabilities.

Guest Editorial: Remembering Steven

Rethinking the Anorexic Body: How English Law and Psychiatry 'Think'

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2003

Warning: health ‘choices’ can kill

by Kirsty Keywood and Margaret Flynn

The Journal of Adult Protection, 2003

March 2001 heralded the presentation to parliament by the secretary of state for health of the Wh... more

Healthcare decision-making by adults with learning disabilities: ongoing agendas, future challenges

by Kirsty Keywood and Margaret Flynn

Psychiatry, 2009

This contribution reviews recent developments in the law and policy of healthcare decision-making... more This contribution reviews recent developments in the law and policy of healthcare decision-making by, with and for adults with learning disabilities. In particular, it considers the impact of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the reforms outlined in the Department of Health's (2005) White Paper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say: A New Direction for Community Services, and the Local Authority Circular (2008) Transforming Social Care. Pressing issues such as the concept of choice for vulnerable adults and the challenges for professionals in assessing decision-making ability are assumed within these policy frameworks. Other issues, such as the importance of creating time to engage and involve vulnerable adults in decision-making about their health, continue to present challenges for healthcare policy and practice.

The palliative care experiences of adults with learning disabilities/intellectual disability: The implications for ethical decision making

by Kirsty Keywood and Margaret Flynn

International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 2009

Abstract: This paper presents some of the ethical challenges facing services supporting adults wi... more

Critical decisions and questions regarding serious case reviews – ideas from North West England

by Kirsty Keywood and Margaret Flynn

The Journal of Adult Protection, 2011

" People like us don't have babies. " 1 Learning disability, prospective parenthood and legal transformations

Landmark Cases in Medical Law

Published in Herring and Wall (eds) Landmark Cases in Medical Law, Hart Publishing: 2015.

Vulnerability and the Criminal Law: The Implications of Brazier's Research for Safeguarding People at Risk

The vulnerable adult experiment: Situating vulnerability in adult safeguarding law and policy

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2017

This article explores the intersection of English adult protection law and policy as it impacted ... more This article explores the intersection of English adult protection law and policy as it impacted on the lives of people with mental disabilities. It evaluates developments that were premised on the notion of the 'vulnerable adult', in light of recent theoretical interrogation of vulnerability and the normative shifts in law and policy advocated by the UNCRPD. I argue that the policy and legal conceptions of vulnerability developed in England and Wales, if reworked, have the potential to transform our understanding of what it is to be vulnerable into a more radical and socially-grounded framework for adult safeguarding. This article concludes with some reflections on what further conceptual and policy work must be done in order to effect that transformation.

Self-Neglect: A Legal Perspective

In Self Neglect and Service Refusal Part of the Safeguarding Agenda 15 Nov 2010 15 Nov 2010 London 2010, 2010

The palliative care experiences of adults with learning disabilities/intellectual disability: The implications for ethical decision making

International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 2009

Abstract: This paper presents some of the ethical challenges facing services supporting adults wi... more

My Body and Other Stories: Anorexia Nervosa and the Legal Politics of Embodiment

Social & Legal Studies, 2000

... EMBODIMENT KIRSTY KEYWOOD University of Liverpool, UK ABSTRACT ... trust between patient and ... more

Safeguarding Reproductive Health? The Inherent Jurisdiction, Contraception, and Mental Incapacity

Medical Law Review, 2011

Rectification of incorrect documentation under the Mental Health Act 1983

The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 1996

ABSTRACT

Critical Decisions and Questions Regarding Serious Case Reviews - Ideas from the North West: Briefing Paper 3

NEAREST RELATIVES AND INDEPENDENT MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES: ADVOCATING FOR MENTAL HEALTH?

In Gostin, McHale, Fennell, Mackaym, Bartlett, Principles of Mental Health Law, 2010

More Than a Woman? Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Medical Law

Feminist Legal Studies, 2000

This article examines law's representation of embodied female identity in the context of two medi... more This article examines law's representation of embodied female identity in the context of two medical law cases, R. v. Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, ex parte Blood and B v. Croydon Health Authority. Through an examination of contemporary critiques of female embodiment, in particular the work of Judith Butler, two discursive strategies are suggested for their potential to reconfigure the sexed subject within legal discourse. Firstly, the act of transgressionthe flight from purportedly fixed subject positions -can be read in the case of Blood and calls into question law's ability to contain and sustain sexed identity as prediscursive and immutable. Secondly, the exposure of the historical formation of the female subjects of legal discourse, demonstrated through a genealogical reading of B v. Croydon Health Authority, contributes to feminist theoretical project to destabilise traditional gender categories and enable us to think beyond the category of 'Woman'.

Disabling Sex: Some Legal Thinking About Sterilisation, Learning Disability and Embodiment

Well Women: The Gendered Nature of Healthcare Provision 2002, A Morris and S Nott (eds)

Gatekeepers, Proxies, Advocates? The Evolving Role of Carers Under Mental Health and Mental Capacity Reform Proposals

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 2003

Supported to be Sexual: Developing Sexual Rights for People with Learning Disabilities

Tizard Learning Disability Review, 2003

This article explores criminal law reform proposals on the law relating to sexual offences, sched... more This article explores criminal law reform proposals on the law relating to sexual offences, scheduled for debate in the current Parliamentary session, in order to illustrate the current tension between sexual empowerment and protection of people with learning disabilities from sexual violence. It suggests that law's response to the sexuality of people with learning disabilities, evidenced by the Sexual Offences Bill currently before Parliament, will always be inadequate for as long it is characterised as choosing between protection and empowerment. An alternative conception of sexual rights has the protection to provide a fuller and more persuasive account of the sexuality of men and women with learning disabilities.

Guest Editorial: Remembering Steven

Rethinking the Anorexic Body: How English Law and Psychiatry 'Think'

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2003

Best Practice Health Care Decision-Making By, With and For Adults with Learning Disabilities 1999.pdf

by Kirsty Keywood and Margaret Flynn