Persons, Parts and Property : How Should We Regulate Human Tissue in the 21st Century? - Imogen Goold

Persons, Parts and Property

How Should We Regulate Human Tissue in the 21st Century?

By: Imogen Goold (Editor), Kate Greasley (Editor), Jonathan Herring (Editor)

Paperback | 24 August 2016 | Edition Number 1

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The debate over whether human bodies and their parts should be governed by the laws of property has accelerated with the pace of technological change. Having long held that a corpse could not be property, the common law first recognised that there could be a property interest in human tissue in some circumstances in the early 1900s, but it was not until a string of judicial decisions and statutory regulation in the 1990s and early 2000s that the place of this 'exception' was cemented. The 2009 decision of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in Yearworth & Ors v North Bristol NHS Trust added a new dimension to the debate by supporting a move towards a broader, more principled basis for finding (or rejecting) property rights in human tissue. However, the law relating to property rights in human bodies and their parts remains highly contested. The contributions in this volume represent a collation of the broad spectrum of analyses on offer, and provide a detailed exploration of the salient legal and theoretical puzzles arising out of the body-as-property question.
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...an absolutely exceptional book by some of the world's leading scholars in this area...
...this volume provides a rich picture of the legal and ethical challenges posed by human biomaterials and the strengths and weaknesses of the different possible ways of reforming the law in this area...[A] broad range of views in the body-as-property debate, as well as the disciplines of law, philosophy, and sociology... * Cambridge Law Journal, 2015, 74 *

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