1st Edition
Biotechnology and the Challenge of Property Property Rights in Dead Bodies, Body Parts, and Genetic Information
By Remigius N. Nwabueze
Copyright 2007
392 Pages
by
Routledge
392 Pages
by
Routledge
392 Pages
by
Routledge
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Biotechnology and the Challenge of Property addresses the question of how the advancement of property law is capable of controlling the interests generated by the engineering of human tissues. Through a comparative consideration of non-Western societies and industrialized cultures, this book addresses the impact of modern biotechnology, and its legal accommodation on the customary conduct and... Read more
Preface, Acknowledgements, Table of Cases, Table of Statutes, Introduction, 1. The Nature, Uses and Meaning of Property, 2. Biotechnology and the Property Jurisprudence on the Human Body and Parts, 3. Cultural and Ontological Contexts of Biotechnology and the Human Body, 4. DNA Banks and Proprietary Interests in Biosamples and Genetic Information, 5. Remedies for Interference with Dead Bodies and Body Parts: Property and Non-Property Approaches, 6. Property and Traditional Knowledge, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Remigius N. Nwabueze is City Solicitors' Educational Trust Lecturer in Property Law, at the University of Southampton, UK. He has published in the areas of Regulatory and Ethical Issues in Biomedical Research or Bioethics, Medical Law and Torts.
'This book draws attention to the consequences of using the concept of property to deal with ethical and policy issues raised by new biotechnology. It combines an analysis of the common law with a discussion of new legal initiatives designed to assist developing countries in dealing with these issues. This book adds a distinct voice to the debate about the legal tools we should use to control new biotechnologies in a developing world context and should appeal to all those who are interested in these issues.' Trudo Lemmens, University of Toronto
