The legal, medical and cultural regulation of the body : Transformation and transgression

By:

Smith Stephen W

Contributor(s):

Deazley Ronan

Publication details: The Hague Asghate Publishing Company 2009Description: 245p ixISBN:

9780754677369

Subject(s):

1. Human Body - Law & Legislaiton - U K 2. Human Reproduction - Human Reprodutive Technology 3. Human Body - Moral & Ethical Aspects

DDC classification:

344.041000 SMI

Contents:

Table of contents Preface; Introduction; being human: of liberty and privilege, Margaret Brazier; Part I Regulating Reproduction: Introduction to part I, Helen Beebee; Nothing and not-nothing: law's ambivalent response to transformation and transgression at the beginning of life, Mary Ford; Regulating reproduction:frozen embryos, consent, welfare and the equality myth, Sonia Harris-Short; Persons and their parts: new reproductive technologies and risks of commodification, Heather Widdows. Part II Interspecies Embryos: Introduction to part II, Stephen W. Smith; Legislating interspecies embryos, Marie Fox; Humanity, divinity, and interspecies embryos, Robert Song; Part III Transforming the Body: Introduction to part III, Kate Ince; Less is more: body integrity identity disorder, R.C. Smith; Medicine, governmentality and biopower in cosmetic surgery, Victoria Pitts-Taylor; Part IV Self-Harm and Self-Determination: Introduction to part IV, Colin Warbrick; A duty to treat? - a legal analysis, Mr Justice Munby; Bursting the autonomy bubble: a defence of the Court of Appeal decision in R (on the application of Oliver Leslie Burke) v GMC, Claire McIvor; Liberalism and constraining choice: the cases of death and serious bodily harm, G.R. Sullivan; Index.

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Table of contents
Preface;
Introduction;
being human: of liberty and privilege, Margaret Brazier;
Part I Regulating Reproduction: Introduction to part I, Helen Beebee;
Nothing and not-nothing: law's ambivalent response to transformation and transgression at the beginning of life, Mary Ford; Regulating reproduction:frozen embryos, consent, welfare and the equality myth, Sonia Harris-Short; Persons and their parts: new reproductive technologies and risks of commodification, Heather Widdows.
Part II Interspecies Embryos: Introduction to part II, Stephen W. Smith;
Legislating interspecies embryos, Marie Fox;
Humanity, divinity, and interspecies embryos, Robert Song;
Part III Transforming the Body: Introduction to part III, Kate Ince;
Less is more: body integrity identity disorder, R.C. Smith; Medicine, governmentality and biopower in cosmetic surgery, Victoria Pitts-Taylor;
Part IV Self-Harm and Self-Determination: Introduction to part IV, Colin Warbrick;
A duty to treat? - a legal analysis, Mr Justice Munby;
Bursting the autonomy bubble: a defence of the Court of Appeal decision in R (on the application of Oliver Leslie Burke) v GMC, Claire McIvor; Liberalism and constraining choice: the cases of death and serious bodily harm, G.R. Sullivan;
Index.

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