The legal, medical, and cultural regulation of the body
Subtitle: transformation and transgression
By: [edited] by Stephen W. Smith and Ronan Deazley.
Contributors: Smith, Stephen W., 1973-; Deazley, Ronan.
Series: Medical law and ethics
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754677369; 9780754694656
Subjects: Human body -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain; Human reproduction -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain; Human reproductive technology -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain; Human body -- Law and legislation; Human body -- Moral and ethical aspects
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Regulating reproduction : introduction / Helen Beebee; title: Nothing and not-nothing : law's ambivalent response to transformation and transgression at the beginning of life / Mary Ford; title: Regulating reproduction : frozen embryos, consent, welfare and the equality myth / Sonia Harris-Short; title: Persons and their parts : new reproductive technologies and risks of commodification / Heather Widdows; title: Interspecies embryos : introduction / Stephen W. Smith; title: Legislating interspecies embryos / Marie Fox; title: Humanity, divinity, and interspecies embryos / Robert Song; title: Transforming the body: introduction / Kate Ince; title: Less is more : body integrity identity disorder / Robert Smith; title: Medicine, governmentality and biopower in cosmetic surgery / Victoria Pitts-Taylor. Self-harm and self-determination : introduction / Colin Warbrick; title: A duty to treat? : a legal analysis / Mr. Justice Munby; title: 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; title: Liberalism and Constraining Choice : the cases of death and serious bodily harm / G.R. Sullivan.