ABSTRACT
Recent scandals involving the use of human body parts have highlighted the need for legal clarification surrounding property law and the use of human tissue. This book advances the notion that the legal basis for dealing with this is already available in the law but has thus far neither been used nor discussed. Proposing an alternative approach to constructing entitlements in human tissue and resolving resulting property conflicts, a new methodology is also advanced for abstracting different concepts within the debate which enables comparison and distinction between different cases of entitlement and retention.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |58 pages
Background
chapter |9 pages
Introduction
chapter |19 pages
Concepts and Issues
chapter |11 pages
Alder Hey and Public Opinion
chapter |14 pages
Terminology
part |75 pages
Legal Approaches
chapter |5 pages
Old Law for New Problems?
chapter |7 pages
Protecting Entitlements
chapter |15 pages
The Common Law Position
chapter |16 pages
Legislation
chapter |9 pages
A Look at Paradigmatic Case Law
chapter |17 pages
The Law, Systematically
part |29 pages
Bioequity