Bioequity : property and the human body / Nils Hoppe.

  • Hoppe, Nils.
Date:
[2009], ©2009
  • Books

About this work

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."--BOOK JACKET.

Publication/Creation

Farnham ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub., [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

xvi, 177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Contributors

Contents

Concepts and issues -- Alder Hey and public opinion -- Terminology -- Old law for new problems? -- Protecting entitlements -- The common law position -- Legislation -- A look at paradigmatic case law -- The law, systematically -- Equity -- Developing new property classes -- Concluding thoughts.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-173) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    WO33.FA1 2009H79b
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780754672807
  • 0754672808
  • 9780754689324
  • 0754689328