The legal, medical and cultural regulation of the body :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
transformation and transgression /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Stephen W. Smith, Ronan Deazley
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Burlington, VT :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Ashgate,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2009
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
viii, 245 p. ;
Dimensions
24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Medical law and ethics
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Human body-- Law and legislation
Human body-- Law and legislation-- Great Britain
Human body-- Moral and ethical aspects
Human reproduction-- Law and legislation-- Great Britain
Human reproductive technology-- Law and legislation-- Great Britain