Recent debates about uses and abuses of the human body in medicine have highlighted the
need for a thorough discussion of the ethics of the uses of bodies, both living and dead …

This paper contends that the conventional ethical and legal ways of analysing the wrong
involved in the misuse of human body parts are inadequate, and should be replaced with an …

J Med Ethics: first published as 10.1136/jme. 29.3. 127 on 1 June 2003. Downloaded from
as on extended loan from the biomass, to the individual of which it forms a part, and any …

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 …

CHOICE 1998 Outstanding Academic Books This book argues that standard forms of
bioethics support the technological utopian quest of medicine: to eliminate suffering and …

Speaking for the Dead is an incisive examination of the highly topical and often controversial
issues surrounding the use of human cadavers in scientific research. Fully revised and …

A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Book of the Year A First Things Books for Christmas Selection
Winner of the Expanded Reason Award “This important work of moral philosophy argues …

In the prevailing liberal ethos, if there is one thing that is beyond the reach of others, it is our
body in particular, and our person in general: our legal and political tradition is such that we …

Despite stringent and fine tuned laws most jurisdictions are not able to curb organ trafficking.
Nor are they able to provide organs to the needy. There are reports of the kidnapping and …

Whereas previous discussions on ownership of biological material have been much
informed by the natural rights tradition, insufficient attention has been paid to the strand in …