Description: Medicine, Ownership, and the Human Body; H.A.M.J. ten Have, J.V.M. Welie. Part I: Ownership Issues in Clinical Care and Biomedical Research. Autopsy; B. Blasszauer. Defining the Functional Body and its Parts: A Review of German Law; F. Heubel. Why Should Remunerated Blood Donation be Unethical? Ethical Reflections on Current Blood Donation Policies and their Philosophical Origins; H.A.E. Zwart. Biomedical Research with Human Body 'Parts'; W. Dekkers, H.A.M.J. ten Have. Part II: The History and Concept of Body Ownership. Ownership of the Human Body: Some Historical Remarks; D. Gracia. The Stick, the Eye, and Ownership of the Body; Z. Szawarski. Part III: Medical Interventions and Statutory Foundations. Ownership of the Human Body: The Dutch Context; J.V.M. Welie, H.A.M.J. ten Have. Ownership of the Human Body: Judicial and Legislative Responses in France; A. Fagot-Largeault. Part IV: Ownership of the Body: Theoretical Perspectives. Libertarianism and Ownership of the Human Body; K.W. Wildes, S.J. Ownership of the Body: A Personalist Perspective; P. Schotsmans. Property, Rights, and the Body: The Danish Context - A Democratic Ethics or Recourse to Abstract Right; U.J. Jensen. Ownership of the Human Body: Deontological Approaches; F.J. Illhardt. The Utility of the Body; M. Evans. Notes on Contributors. Index.

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