Self-Ownership, Property Rights, and the Human Body - A Legal and Philosophical Analysis

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.

List of contents

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?

About the author

Muireann Quigley is Professor of Law, Medicine, and Technology at the University of Birmingham. Before moving to academia she was a medical doctor. Her research is explicitly interdisciplinary and focuses on the philosophical analysis of law and policy. She is particularly interested in biotechnological advances and innovations, and how these can and ought to be dealt with by society. She has previously held a number of research grants, including from the Wellcome Trust and the Leverhulme Trust. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Medical Law International. In 2012 she won the Mark S. Ehrenreich Prize in Healthcare Ethics Research.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Muireann Quigley, Muireann (University of Birmingham) Quigley, Quigley Muireann
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781108797740
• ISBN: 978-1-108-79774-0
• No. of pages: 362
• Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Medical Law & Legislation, biotechnology, Bioethics, Bio-ethics, Medical & healthcare law, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Medicolegal issues, Medical and healthcare law, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law