My body, my body parts, my property?

Authors: Beyleveld, D. and Brownsword, R.

Journal: Health Care Analysis

Volume: 8

Issue: 2

Pages: 87-99

ISSN: 1065-3058

DOI: 10.1023/A:1009450511992

Abstract:

This paper challenges the view, commonly held in biolaw and bioethics, that there can be no proprietary rights in our own bodies or body parts. Whether the starting point is the post-intervention informed consent regime of Article 22 of the Convention of Human Rights and Biomedicine or the traditional (exclusionary) understanding of private property it is argued that property in our own bodies or body parts is presupposed. Although these arguments do not demonstrate that there is property of this kind (for that, a full-scale justification of the institution of private property would be required), they suggest nevertheless that the commonly held view has an immanent property logic that has not yet been drawn out or appreciated.

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My body, my body parts, my property?

Authors: Beyleveld, D. and Brownsword, R.

Journal: Health Care Anal

Volume: 8

Issue: 2

Pages: 87-99

ISSN: 1065-3058

DOI: 10.1023/A:1009450511992

Abstract:

This paper challenges the view, commonly held in biolaw and bioethics, that there can be no proprietary rights in our own bodies or body parts. Whether the starting point is the post-intervention informed consent regime of Article 22 of the Convention of Human Rights and Biomedicine or the traditional (exclusionary) understanding of private property it is argued that property in our own bodies or body parts is presupposed. Although these arguments do not demonstrate that there is property of this kind (for that, a full-scale justification of the institution of private property would be required), they suggest nevertheless that the commonly held view has an immanent property logic that has not yet been drawn out or appreciated.

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Preferred by: Roger Brownsword

My body, my body parts, my property?

Authors: Beyleveld, D. and Brownsword, R.

Journal: Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy

Volume: 8

Issue: 2

Pages: 87-99

eISSN: 1573-3394

ISSN: 1065-3058

DOI: 10.1023/a:1009450511992

Abstract:

This paper challenges the view, commonly held in biolaw and bioethics, that there can be no proprietary rights in our own bodies or body parts. Whether the starting point is the post-intervention informed consent regime of Article 22 of the Convention of Human Rights and Biomedicine or the traditional (exclusionary) understanding of private property it is argued that property in our own bodies or body parts is presupposed. Although these arguments do not demonstrate that there is property of this kind (for that, a full-scale justification of the institution of private property would be required), they suggest nevertheless that the commonly held view has an immanent property logic that has not yet been drawn out or appreciated.

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