Persons, Parts and Property - How Should we Regulate Human Tissue in the 21st Century? (Hardcover)

The debate over whether human bodies and their parts should be governed by the laws of property has accelerated with the pace of technological change. Having long held that a corpse could not be property, the common law first recognised that there could be a property interest in human tissue in some circumstances in the early 1900s, but it was not until a string of judicial decisions and statutory regulation in the 1990s and early 2000s that the place of this 'exception' was cemented. The 2009 decision of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in Yearworth & Ors v North Bristol NHS Trust added a new dimension to the debate by supporting a move towards a broader, more principled basis for finding (or rejecting) property rights in human tissue. However, the law relating to property rights in human bodies and their parts remains highly contested. The contributions in this volume represent a collation of the broad spectrum of analyses on offer, and provide a detailed exploration of the salient legal and theoretical puzzles arising out of the body-as-property question.

General

Imprint:	Hart Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2014
First published:	2014
Editors:	Imogen Goold • Kate Greasley • Jonathan Herring • Loane Skene
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	334
ISBN-13:	978-1-84946-546-5
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Private, property, family law > Personal property law > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84946-546-0
Barcode:	9781849465465

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