Ownership of the Human Body - Philosophical Considerations on the Use of the Human Body and its Parts in Healthcare (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)

This is the first book in healthcare ethics addressing the moral issues regarding ownership of the human body. Modern medicine increasingly transforms the body and makes use of body parts for diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive purposes. The book analyzes the concept of body ownership. It also reviews the ownership issues arising in clinical care (for example, donation policies, autopsy) and biomedical research. Societies and legal systems also have to deal with issues of body ownership. A comparison is made between specific legal arrangements in The Netherlands and France, as examples of legal approaches. In the final section of the book, different theoretical perspectives on the human body are analyzed: libertarian, personalist, deontological and utilitarian theories of body ownership.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	European Studies in Philosophy of Medicine, 59
Release date:	2001
First published:	July 1998
Editors:	H.A Ten Have • J.W. Welie
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
Edition:	1998 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-5150-4
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics
LSN:	0-7923-5150-9
Barcode:	9780792351504

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