The legal, medical, and cultural regulation of the body
Subtitle: transformation and transgression
By: [edited] by Stephen Smith and Ronan Deazley.
Contributors: Smith, Stephen.; Deazley, Ronan.
Series: Medical law and ethics
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
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
Description: "The regulation of the body provides an important concern in law, medical practice and culture. This volume contributes to existing research in the area by encouraging experts from a range of related disciplines to consider the ways in which we regulate the body, whether legally, culturally or medically. It explores how conceptions of self, liberalism, property, and harm inform and influence contentious legal and ethical questions about what we can and cannot do to or with our own bodies." -- Back cover.
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.