Property in the body : feminist perspectives / Donna Dickenson.
"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 su...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Cambridge law, medicine, and ethics.
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "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."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 208 pages). |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511283865 9780511283864 0511284667 9780511284663 0511285469 9780511285462 0511286201 9780511286209 0511618654 9780511618659 0521687322 9780521687324 1280909420 9781280909429 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511618659 |