Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives (Cambridge Law, Medicine and Ethics) [Paperback]

Donna Dickenson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 11, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0521687322 | ISBN-13: 978-0521687324 | Edition: 1

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"It is rare to find a text that offers a specifically feminist approach to bioethical problems that are not commonly taken as gendered...this book is to be recommended for an illuminating attempt at philosophical and legal rigor applied to cutting edge ethical issues."
Jackie L. Scully, Metapsychology Online

Dickenson is essential reading, making one aware that ensuring donors' informed consent to the procedures they undergo hardly touches the complexity of the issues involved. Instead, we have to ask whether donors have a rightful interest in how the bodily tissues they donated are later used in research programs and also consider society's legitimate interest in who benefits from the sale of the biotechnological products that may result." - SIGNS

Book Description

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.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 222 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (June 11, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521687322
• ISBN-13: 978-0521687324
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,347,628 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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