Ownership of the human body : philosophical considerations on the use of the human body and its parts in healthcare / edited by Henk A.M.J. ten Have and Jos V.M. Welie ; with the collaboration of Stuart F. Spicker.

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1998], ©1998.

vi, 235 pages ; 23 cm.

Medicine, ownership, and the human body / Henk A. M. J. Ten Have and Jos V. M. Welie -- Autopsy / Bela Blasszauer -- Defining the functional body and its parts : a review of German law / Friedrich Heubel -- Why should remunerated blood donation be unethical? Ethical reflections on current blood donation policies and their philosophical origins / Hub A. E. Zwart -- Biomedical research with human body "parts" / Wim J. M. Dekkers and Henk A. M. J. Ten Have -- Ownership of the human body : some historical remarks / Diego Gracia -- The stick, the eye, and ownership of the body / Zbigniew Szawarski -- Ownership of the human body : the Dutch context / Jos V. M. Welie and Henk A. M. J. Ten Have -- Ownership of the human body : judicial and legislative responses in France / Anne Fagot-Largeault -- Libertarianism and ownership of the human body / Kevin W. Wildes -- Ownership of the body : a personalist perspective / Paul Schotsmans -- Property, rights, and the body : the Danish context- a democratic ethics or recourse to abstract right? / Uffe J. Jensen -- Ownership of the human body : deontological approaches / Franz J. Illhardt -- The utility of the body / Martyn Evans.

Includes bibliographical references and index.