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The legal, medical and cultural regulation of the body : transformation and transgression
Title
The legal, medical and cultural regulation of the body : transformation and transgression / edited by Stephen W. Smith, Ronan Deazley.
ISBN
9780754677369 (hardback : alk. paper)
0754677362 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780754694656 (ebook)
0754694658 (ebook)
Published
Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.
Physical Description
viii, 245 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 15, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : being human : of liberty and privilege / Margaret Brazier
Nothing and not-nothing : law's ambivalent response to transformation and transgression at the beginning of life / Mary Ford
Regulating reproduction : frozen embryos, consent, welfare and the equality myth / Sonia Harris-Short
Persons and their parts : new reproductive technologies and risks of commodification / Heather Widdows
Legislating interspecies embryos / Marie Fox
Humanity, divinity and interspecies embryos / Robert Song
Less is more : body integrity identity disorder / R.C. Smith
Medicine, governmentality and biopower in cosmetic surgery / Victoria Pitts-Taylor
A duty to treat? : a legal analysis / Justice Munby
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
Liberalism and constraining choice : the cases of death and serious bodily harm / G.R. Sullivan.
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