| Description |
xiv, 226 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-215) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Body shopping at both ends of life: babies and bones for sale -- A global market in baby-making -- Exploitation, justice and freedom of choice -- The unlovely bones -- 2. What makes you think you own your body? -- The case of John Moore -- How much work does it take to make a spleen? -- Donors or dupes? -- 3. With love at Christmas: a set of stem cells -- Totally safe and harmless?-- Benefits or risks for the baby? -- Waste not, want not -- Whose blood is it anyway? -- Cord blood, the cure-all? -- 4. Stem cells, holy grails and eggs on trees -- A piece of Science fiction -- Stem cell research: hype and reality -- A risky endeavour and A fait accompli -- To pay or not to pay: is that the question? -- |
|
5. Genomes up for grabs: or, could Dr. Frankenstein have patented his monster? -- Can you take out a patent on life? -- Invention or discovery? The case of Diamond v. Chakrabarty -- Where do we go from here? -- Resistance is not futile: the case of Tonga -- The French disconnection -- 6. The biobank that likes to say 'no' -- Possession is ten-tenths of the law: the Catalona case -- Two steps back or one step forward? -- Catalona revisited: the appeal court judgment -- 7. Buying the 'real me': shopping for a face -- Venus envy -- It may be someone else's face, but when I look in the mirror I see me -- The face: just another part of the body? -- A cautionary tale: the aftermath of the first human hand transplant -- The 'real me': what money can't buy -- 8. My body, my capital? -- Organs for sale, one careful (and unwilling) owner -- The tragedy of the genetic commons -- Why we all have female bodies now. |
| Summary |
From the Publisher: "In Body Shopping, award-winning writer Donna Dickenson makes a case against the new-found rights of businesses to harvest body parts and gain exclusive profit from the resulting products and processes. To illustrate her case, she presents a series of compelling stories of individuals injured or abused by the increasingly rapacious biotechnology industry." Body Shopping offers a fresh, international, and completely up-to-date take on the evolving legal position, the historical long view, and the latest biomedical research-an approach that goes beyond a mere recital of horror stories to suggest a range of new strategies to bring the biotechnology industry to heel. The result is a gripping, powerful book that is essential reading for everyone from parents to philosophers, and from scientists to lawmakers-everyone who believes that no human should ever be reduced to the sum of their body parts. |
| Subject |
Bioethical Issues. |
|
Human Body. |
|
Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
|
|
Human body.
|
| ISBN |
9781851685912 (hbk.) |
|
185168591X (hbk.) |
| Standard No. |
NLM 101474918 |
|
NLGGC 309765056 |
|
NZ1 11676414 |
|
AU@ 000043218449 |
|
