Body lore and laws
"This collection of essays is the product of a series of seminars held by the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group in 2000"--Preface
xii, 346 pages ; 25 cm
9781841131979, 9781841131962, 1841131970, 1841131962
47270804
Introduction / Shelley Day Sclater
Bodies as property : from slavery to DNA maps / Eileen Richardson, Bryan S. Turner
Giving, selling and sharing bodies / Jonathan Herring
Discovering and patenting human genes / Gregory Radick
Letting go ... parents, professionals and the law in retention of human material after post mortem / Mavis Maclean
Male medical students and the male body / Martin H. Johnson
Domestic homicide, gender and the expert / Felicity Kaganas
The many appearances of the body in feminist scholarship / Anne Bottomley
Male bodies, family practices / Richard Collier
Sexualities, sexual relations and the law / Andrew Bainham
Hiring bodies : male clients and prostitution / Belinda Brooks-Gordon, Loraine Gelsthorpe
Villain, hero or masked stranger : ambivalence in transactions with human gametes / Rachel Cook
Court-ordered caesarean sections / Jane Weaver
Dehydrating bodies : the Bland case, the Winterton bill and the importance of intention in evaluating end-of-life decision-making / John Keown
Religion, culture and the body of the child / Caroline Bridge
Future bodies : some history and future prospects for human genetic selection / Martin Richards
Perceptions of the body and genetic risk / Elizabeth Chapman
Science, medicine and ethical change / Derek Morgan
"This collection of essays is the product of a series of seminars held by the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group in 2000"--Preface.