Property in the body [electronic resource] : feminist perspectives / Donna L. Dickenson.

By:

Dickenson, Donna

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Cambridge law, medicine, and ethicsPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1280909420
9786610909421
0511286201
0511285469
0511283865
0511321023
0511618654
0511284667

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification:

174.957

LOC classification:

TP248.23 .D53 2007

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Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; 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

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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
e-book	KNCHR Library SharePoint	Non-Fiction	TP248.23 .D53 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.