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Body Lore and Laws - Essays on Law and the Human Body (Hardcover)
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Body Lore and Laws - Essays on Law and the Human Body (Hardcover)
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This book,the second produced by the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group,
is a collection of essays on the subject of law and the human body.
As the title suggests, bodies and body parts are not only subject
to regulation through formal legal processes, but also the meanings
attached to particular bodies, and the significance accorded to
some body parts, are aspects of broader cultural processes. In
short, bodies are subjected to both lore and laws. The
contributors, all leading academics in the fields of Law,
Sociology, Psychology, Feminism, Criminology, Biology and Genetics,
respectively, offer a range of interdisciplinary papers that
critically examine how bodies are constructed and regulated in law.
The book is divided into two parts. Part one is concerned with
'Making Bodies' and includes papers relating to transactions in
human gametes, cloning, court-ordered caesarean sections, testing
for genetic risk, the patenting of human genes and the social
policy implications of the growth in genetic information. Part two
is concerned with 'Using and Abusing Bodies'. It contains chapters
relating to sexualities, sexual orientation and the law, sex
workers and their clients, domestic homicide, religious and
cultural practices and other issues involving children's bodies,
the ownership of the body and body parts and the legal and ethical
issues surrounding euthanasia.
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