TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dickenson,Donna
TI  - Property in the body: feminist perspectives 
T2  - Cambridge law, medicine, and ethics
SN  - 9780511618659 (ebook)
AV  - TP248.23 .D53 2007
U1  - 174/.957 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Biotechnology
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Human body
KW  - Feminist theory
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Do we all have 'feminised' bodies now? -- Property, objectification, and commodification -- The lady vanishes: what's missing from the stem cell debate -- Umbilical cord blood banks: seizing surplus value -- The gender politics of genetic patenting -- Biobanks: consent, commercialisation, and charitable trusts -- The new French resistance: commodification rejected? -- Tonga, the genetic commons and no man's land
N2  - New developments in biotechnology radically alter our relationship with our bodies. Body tissues can now be used for commercial purposes, while external objects, such as pacemakers, can become part of the body. Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives transcends the everyday responses to such developments, suggesting that what we most fear is the feminisation of the body. We fear our bodies are becoming objects of property, turning us into things rather than persons. This book evaluates how well-grounded this fear is, and suggests innovative models of regulating what has been called 'the new Gold Rush' in human tissue. This is an up-to-date and wide-ranging synthesis of market developments in body tissue, bringing together bioethics, feminist theory and lessons from countries that have resisted commercialisation of the body, in a theoretically sophisticated and practically significant approach
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511618659
ER  -