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Author Dickenson, Donna.

Title Property in the body : feminist perspectives / Donna Dickenson.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  174.957 D548P    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 208 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Cambridge law, medicine, and ethics
Cambridge law, medicine, and ethics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-199) and index.
Contents Do we all have 'feminised' bodies now? -- Property, objectification, and commodification -- The lady vanishes: what's missing from the stem cell debate -- Umbilical cord blood banks: seizing surplus value -- The gender politics of genetic patenting -- Biobanks: consent, commercialisation, and charitable trusts -- The new French resistance: commodification rejected? -- Tonga, the genetic commons and no man's land.
Summary "New developments in biotechnology radically alter our relationship with our bodies. Body tissues can now be used for commercial purposes, while external objects, such as pacemakers, can become part of the body. Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives transcends the everyday responses to such developments, suggesting that what we most fear is the feminisation of the body. We fear our bodies are becoming objects of property, turning us into things rather than persons. This book evaluates how well-grounded this fear is, and suggests innovative models of regulating what has been called 'the new Gold Rush' in human tissue.
This is an up-to-date and wide-ranging synthesis of market developments in body tissue, bringing together bioethics, feminist theory and lessons from countries that have resisted commercialisation of the body, in a theoretically sophisticated and practically significant approach."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject Bioethical Issues.
Biotechnology -- ethics.
Feminism.
Human Body.
Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Human body.
Feminist theory.
Kommerzialisierung.
Persönlichkeitsrecht.
Medizinische Ethik.
Feminismus.
Feministische Ethik.
Gewebe.
Körperteil.
Humangenetik.
Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects. (OCoLC)fst00832760
Feminist theory. (OCoLC)fst00922816
Human body. (OCoLC)fst01730057
ISBN 9780521867924 (hardback)
0521867924 (hardback)
9780521687324 (paperback)
0521687322 (paperback)
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