Body Lore and Laws

Andrew Bainham is a Fellow of Christ's College,Cambridge and Reader in Family Law and Policy at the University of Cambridge. Shelley Day Sclater is a Reader in Psycho-Social Studies at the University of East London and co-director of the Centre for Narrative Research. Martin Richards is Emeritus Professor of Family Research at the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge.

Introduction, Shelley Day Sclater; bodies as property - form slavery to DNA maps, Eileen Richardson and Bryan S. Turner; giving, selling and sharing bodies, Jonathan Herring; discovering and patenting human genes, Gregory Radick; letting go .... parents, professionals and the law in retention of human material after post mortem, Mavis Maclean; male medical students and the male body, Martin H. Johnson; domestic homicide, gender and the expert, Felicity Kaganas; the many appearances of the body in feminist scholarship, Anne Bottomley; male bodies, family practices, Richard Collier; sexualities, sexual relations and the law, Andrew Bainham; hiring bodies - male clients and prostitution, Belinda Brooks-Gordon and Loraine Gelsthorpe; villain, hero or masked stranger - ambivalence in transactions with human gametes, Rachel Cook; court-ordered Cesarean sections, Jane Weaver; dehydrating bodies - the "Bland" case, the Winterton Bill and the importance of intention in evaluating end-of-life decision-making, John Keown; religion, culture and the body of the child, Caroline Bridge; future bodies - some history and future prospects for human genetic selection, Martin Richards; perceptions of the body and genetic risk, Elizabeth Chapman; science, medicine and ethical change, Derek Morgan.