| Description |
xii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction -- SHELLEY DAY SCLATER -- 2. Bodies as Property: from Slavery to DNA Maps -- EILEEN RICHARDSON AND BRYAN S. TURNER -- 3. Giving, Selling and Sharing Bodies -- JONATHAN HERRING -- 4. Discovering and Patenting Human Genes -- GREGORY RADICK -- 5. Letting Go Parents, Professionals and the Law in Retention of -- Human Material after Post Mortem -- MAVIS MACLEAN -- 6. Male Medical Students and the Male Body -- MARTIN H. JOHNSON -- 7. Domestic Homicide, Gender and the Expert -- FELICITY KAGANAS -- 8. The Many Appearances of the Body in Feminist Scholarship -- ANNE BOTTOMLEY -- 9. Male Bodies, Family Practices -- RICHARD COLLIER -- 10. Sexualities, Sexual Relations and the Law -- ANDREW BAINHAM -- 11. Hiring Bodies: Male Clients and Prostitution -- BELINDA BROOKS-GORDON AND LORAINE GELSTHORPE -- 12. Villain, Hero or Masked Stranger: Ambivalence in Transactions -- with Human Gametes -- RACHEL COOK -- 13. Court-Ordered Caesarean Sections -- JANE WEAVER -- 14. Dehydrating Bodies: the Bland case, The Winterton Bill and the -- Importance of Intention in Evaluating End-of-Life Decision-Making -- JOHN KEOWN -- -- -- -- 15. Religion, Culture and the Body of the Child -- CAROLINE BRIDGE -- 16. Future Bodies: Some History and Future Prospects for Human -- Genetic Selection -- MARTIN RICHARDS -- 17. Perceptions of the Body and Genetic Risk -- ELIZABETH CHAPMAN -- 18. Science, Medicine and Ethical Change -- DEREK MORGAN |
| Summary |
A collection of essays on the subject of law and the human body. Bodies and body parts are not only subject to regulation through formal legal processes, but also the meanings attached to particular bodies, and the significance accorded to some body parts, are aspects of broader cultural processes |
| Analysis |
Medical & Health Law |
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Family law |
| Notes |
"This collection of essays is the product of a series of seminars held by the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group in 2000"_Pref |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Human body -- Law and legislation -- Congresses.
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Medical laws and legislation.
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Sex and law.
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Human body -- Law and legislation.
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Human body -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
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Human body -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Richards, Martin, 1940 January 26-
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Bainham, Andrew.
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Sclater, Shelley Day.
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Cambridge Socio-Legal Group.
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| LC no. |
2002281617 |
| ISBN |
1841131970 |
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1841131962 hardback |
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