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.

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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.

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Product Details

General

Imprint

Springer

Country of origin

Netherlands

Series

European Studies in Philosophy of Medicine, 59

Release date

July 1998

Availability

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First published

July 1998

Editors

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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

Barcode

9780792351504

Categories

LSN

0-7923-5150-9



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