Bioequity
Subtitle: property and the human body
By: Nils Hoppe.
Series: Medical law and ethics; Medical law and ethics
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780754672807; 9780754689324
Subjects: Human body -- Law and legislation
Description: "Recent scandals involving the use of human body parts have highlighted the need for legal clarification surrounding property law and the use of human tissue. This book advances the notion that the legal basis for dealing with this is already available in the law but has thus far neither been used nor discussed. Proposing an alternative approach to constructing entitlements in human tissue and resolving resulting property conflicts, a new methodology is also advanced for abstracting different concepts within the debate which enables comparison and distinction between different cases of entitlement and retention."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Concepts and issues; title: Alder Hey and public opinion; title: Terminology; title: Old law for new problems?; title: Protecting entitlements; title: The common law position; title: Legislation; title: A look at paradigmatic case law; title: The law, systematically; title: Equity; title: Developing new property classes; title: Concluding thoughts.