The Body in Bioethics
eBook - ePub

The Body in Bioethics

  1. 168 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Body in Bioethics

About this book

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.

Thorough and comprehensive, this volume explores different views of the significance of the human body and contrasting those which regard it as a commodity or personal possession with those which stress its moral value as integral to the personal identity of individuals. The Body in Bioethics addresses a number of key questions including:

    • Should it be legal to sell human organs for transplantation?

    • Are public displays of plastinated bodies or public autopsies morally justifiable?

    • Should there be restrictions on the uses of human tissue in teaching and research?

    • Is the rapid increase in volume and range of cosmetic surgery a matter for moral concern?

This careful study of moral values provides essential background to many of the current controversies in medical ethics and is essential reading for all students of law, medical law and medical ethics.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge-Cavendish
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9781844720576
eBook ISBN
9781135392994
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Law Theory & Practice
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. 1 Why the body matters
  7. 2 My body: property, commodity or gift?
  8. 3 Body futures
  9. 4 The tissue trove
  10. 5 The branded body
  11. 6 Gifts from the dead
  12. 7 Together at last
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography

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