Self-Ownership, Property Rights, and the Human Body

Self-Ownership, Property Rights, and the Human Body

A Legal and Philosophical Analysis

Quigley, Muireann (University of Birmingham)

Cambridge University Press

01/2020

362

Mole

Inglês

9781108797740

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How should the law deal with the challenges raised by advancing biotechnology? This book offers a philosophical and legal re-analysis of the law in relation to property in the body and biomaterials. It will appeal to academics working on issues crossing biotechnology, law, ethics and policy.
1. Bodies of value; Part I. Human Tissues and the Law: 2. Regulating the uses of biomaterials: consent and authorisation; 3. Property in the body?; 4. A property (r)evolution?; Part II. Property and Persons: 5. What is property? I: bundles and things; 6. What is property? II: rights and interests; 7. The scope and bounds of self-ownership; Part III. Beyond Self-Ownership: 8. Property rights in biomaterials; 9. Transferring bodily property; 10. The future of human biomaterials?