Self-ownership, property rights, and the human body : a legal and philosophical analysis
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 18 - Law
- Output identifier
- 59338594
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781139568326
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107036864
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This inter-disciplinary book provides an extended (300+ pages) treatment of questions of self-ownership and property rights in the body. The literatures engaged span across the disciplines of property law, bioethics, science and technology studies, medicine, and philosophy. Research involved analysis - in the UK and in other jurisdictions (especially the US) - of how the law has treated a wide range of human biomaterials, from blood to spleens, from prostates to cancer cells. The health law and policy recommendations provided are underpinned by in-depth explorations of both new medical technologies, and moral and legal philosophy.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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