Ownership of the Human Body: Philosophical Considerations on the Use of the Human Body and its Parts in Healthcare
Author:   H.A. Ten Have ,  J.W. Welie
Publisher:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   1998 ed.
Volume:   59
ISBN:  

9780792351504


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   31 July 1998
Format:   Hardback
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Ownership of the Human Body: Philosophical Considerations on the Use of the Human Body and its Parts in Healthcare


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This is a study of healthcare ethics, addressing the moral issues regarding ownership of the human body. Modern medicine increasingly transforms the body and makes use of body parts for diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive purposes. This book analyzes the concept of body ownership. It also reviews the ownership issues arising in clinical care (for example, donation policies, autopsy) and biomedical research. Societies and legal systems also have to deal with issues of body ownership. A comparison is made between specific legal arrangements in the Netherlands and France, as examples of legal approaches. In the final section of the book, different theoretical perspectives on the human body are analyzed - libertarian, personalist, deontological and utilitarian theories of body ownership.

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Author:   H.A. Ten Have ,  J.W. Welie
Publisher:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   1998 ed.
Volume:   59
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.180kg
ISBN:  

9780792351504


ISBN 10:   0792351509
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   31 July 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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'This work is another excellent publication from the collection PHILOSOPHY AND MEDICINE... Ownership iof the Human Body is an excellent work for a systematized, wide and deep study of a theme of great impact for the domain of health care, and clearly decisive for the contemporary concept of person and society that we are building for ourselves.' Ethical Perspectives, 6:3/4 (1999)


'This work is another excellent publication from the collection PHILOSOPHY AND MEDICINE... Ownership iof the Human Body is an excellent work for a systematized, wide and deep study of a theme of great impact for the domain of health care, and clearly decisive for the contemporary concept of person and society that we are building for ourselves.' Ethical Perspectives, 6:3/4 (1999)


This work is another excellent publication from the collection PHILOSOPHY AND MEDICINE... Ownership iof the Human Body is an excellent work for a systematized, wide and deep study of a theme of great impact for the domain of health care, and clearly decisive for the contemporary concept of person and society that we are building for ourselves.' Ethical Perspectives, 6: 3/4 (1999)


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