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.

part |58 pages

Background

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

chapter |19 pages

Concepts and Issues

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 |17 pages

The Law, Systematically

part |29 pages

Bioequity

chapter |14 pages

Equity

chapter |3 pages

Concluding Thoughts