Self-ownership, property rights and the human body : a legal and philosophical analysis / Muireann Quigley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quigley, Muireann, author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Cambridge bioethics and law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biotechnology industries--Law and legislation.

Biotechnology industries.

Human body--Law and legislation.

Human body.

Physical Description:

xix, 339 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

How ought the law to deal with novel challenges regarding the use and control of human biomaterials? As it stands the law is ill-equipped to deal with these. Quigley argues that advancing biotechnology means that the law must confront and move boundaries which it has constructed; in particular, those which delineate property from non-property in relation to biomaterials. Drawing together often disparate strands of property discourse, she offers a philosophical and legal re-analysis of the law in relation to property in the body and biomaterials. She advances a new defence, underpinned by self-ownership, of the position that persons ought to be seen as the prima facie holders of property rights in their separated biomaterials.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781107036864

1107036860

OCLC:

1041958041