The legal, medical and cultural regulation of the body : transformation and transgression / edited by Stephen W. Smith, Ronan Deazley.

Date:
[2009], ©2009
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Publication/Creation

Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

viii, 245 pages ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Nothing and not-nothing : law's ambivalent response to transformation and transgression at the beginning of life / Mary Ford -- Regulating reproduction : frozen embryos, consent, welfare and the equality myth / Sonia Harris-Short -- Persons and their parts : new reproductive technologies and risks of commodification / Heather Widdows -- Legislating interspecies embryos / Marie Fox -- Humanity, divinity and interspecies embryos / Robert Song -- Less is more : body integrity identity disorder / R.C. Smith -- Medicine, governmentality and biopower in cosmetic surgery / Victoria Pitts-Taylor -- A duty to treat? : a legal analysis / Justice Munby -- Bursting the autonomy bubble : a defence of the court of appeal decision in R (On the application of Oliver Leslie Burke) v GMC / Claire McIvor -- Liberalism and constraining choice : the cases of death and serious bodily harm / G.R. Sullivan.

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    Medical Collection
    KD667.H85 2009L44
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  • 9780754677369
  • 0754677362
  • 9780754694656
  • 0754694658