Property in the Body - Donna Dickenson

Property in the Body

Feminist Perspectives

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Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2007
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-86792-4 (ISBN)
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In response to the increasing commercialisation of the body, this book offers a wide-ranging synthesis of market developments in body tissue, together with an ethical approach to how we can deal with them and innovative models of regulating what has been called 'the new Gold Rush' in human tissue.
New developments in biotechnology radically alter our relationship with our bodies. Body tissues can now be used for commercial purposes, while external objects, such as pacemakers, can become part of the body. Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives transcends the everyday responses to such developments, suggesting that what we most fear is the feminisation of the body. We fear our bodies are becoming objects of property, turning us into things rather than persons. This book evaluates how well-grounded this fear is, and suggests innovative models of regulating what has been called 'the new Gold Rush' in human tissue. This is an up-to-date and wide-ranging synthesis of market developments in body tissue, bringing together bioethics, feminist theory and lessons from countries that have resisted commercialisation of the body, in a theoretically sophisticated and practically significant approach.

Donna Dickenson is Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London.

Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Do we all have 'feminised' bodies now?; 2. Property, objectification and commodification; 3. The Lady Vanishes: what's missing from the stem cell debate; 4. Umbilical cord blood banks: seizing surplus value; 5. The gender politics of genetic patenting; 6. Biobanks: consent, commercialisation and charitable trusts; 7. The new French resistance: commodification rejected?; 8. Tonga, the genetic commons and No Man's Land; 9. Afterword; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.4.2007
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Law, Medicine and Ethics
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 236 mm
Gewicht 484 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinethik
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Naturwissenschaften Biologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-521-86792-4 / 0521867924
ISBN-13 978-0-521-86792-4 / 9780521867924
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