Property in the Body Feminist Perspectives

New developments in biotechnology radically alter our relationship with our bodies. Body tissues can now be used for commercial purposes, while external objects, such as pacemakers, can become part of the body. Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives transcends the everyday responses to such dev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dickenson, Donna
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 19.04.2007
Edition:1
Series:Cambridge Law, Medicine and Ethics
Subjects:
Bioethics
Biotechnology
Biotechnology > Moral and ethical aspects
Body
Body, Human
Commerce
Evaluation
Everyday life
Fear
Feminism
Feminist theory
Moral and ethical aspects
Object
Property
Regulation
ISBN:9780521687324, 0521867924, 0521687322, 9780521867924
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Do We All Have 'Feminised' Bodies Now? -- Bodies, persons and things -- The feminised body -- Property as a bundle of rights -- Property rights, personal rights and the 'gift relationship' -- The organisation of this book -- 2 Property, Objectification and Commodification -- The objectification of women's bodies: lessons from classical Athens -- Liberal political theory: property in the body and property in the person -- Contract, property and mutual recognition in Hegel -- Marx, Delphy and Arendt: alienation and women's reproductive labour -- 3 The Lady Vanishes: What's Missing from the Stem Cell Debate -- What are the risks? -- Women's property in ova: a Lockean basis -- Hegel, contract and stem cells -- Women's alienation from their own reproductive labour -- The woman as receptacle and the limitations of contract -- 4 Umbilical Cord Blood Banks: Seizing Surplus Value -- Risks and benefits -- If cord blood is property, whose is it? -- Respecting altruism, recreating the commons -- 5 The Gender Politics of Genetic Patenting -- Human DNA: object or person? -- The inventive step and 'dumb' matter -- 6 Biobanks: Consent, Commercialisation and Charitable Trusts -- Consent, empowerment and gift -- Do biobank participants deserve property rights? If so, which ones? -- 7 The New French Resistance: Commodification Rejected? -- Commercialisation and its discontents: the CCNE as exemplar of French principles -- Patrimoine, patriarchy and protection -- Gift and altruistic donation -- Is the body the person? -- 8 Tonga, the Genetic Commons and No Man's Land -- The Tongan and Maori cases -- Communal ownership and the 'new enclosures': does the metaphor fit the human genome? -- 9 Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index