Since the days of the body-snatchers, human bodies and their parts have been a valuable resource for science and medicine. They have been used for study, as the raw material for therapeutics and genetic research, as a source of transplant organs and for the creation of artistic works. In effect, human body parts are treated in many respects as items of property for they are possessed, controlled, used, transferred and destroyed. We even use the language of property to express how we experience our bodies - "I broke my arm", "He donated his kidney''. However, the Australian legal system has baulked at placing excised human tissue within the ambit of property laws. Mosdy a consent approach is taken through legislation and ethical gui...
The human body and its parts are widely perceived as matters beyond commercial usage. This belief i...
During the past twenty years human biological materials have become increasingly important for resea...
Genetic researchers and medical practitioners often need to obtain access to stored human tissue wit...
Since the days of the body-snatchers, human bodies and their parts have been a valuable resource fo...
Human tissue and body parts have been used in one way or another for millennia. They have been prese...
Do you own your body? Advances in science and the development of genetic databases have given this q...
The ownership of tissue samples donated for medical research is an ongoing subject of dispute. Some ...
In disputes over the use and possession of the human body and its parts, there has been a marked rel...
In Moore v. Regents of the University of California, the Supreme Court of California held that the h...
The question of when property rights may arise in human body parts or bodily products remains contro...
If I am not a slave, nobody else owns me and I therefore must own myself. This is but philosophical ...
• Trade in human tissue in Australia is prohibited by state law, and in ethical guidelines by the Na...
Biotechnology and the Challenge of Property addresses the question of how the advancement of propert...
[Extract] Legal regulation of transactions in the human body is in one sense a new phenomenon. Tradi...
This Article examines whether property law provides an appropriate forum for determining who should ...
The human body and its parts are widely perceived as matters beyond commercial usage. This belief i...
During the past twenty years human biological materials have become increasingly important for resea...
Genetic researchers and medical practitioners often need to obtain access to stored human tissue wit...
Since the days of the body-snatchers, human bodies and their parts have been a valuable resource fo...
Human tissue and body parts have been used in one way or another for millennia. They have been prese...
Do you own your body? Advances in science and the development of genetic databases have given this q...
The ownership of tissue samples donated for medical research is an ongoing subject of dispute. Some ...
In disputes over the use and possession of the human body and its parts, there has been a marked rel...
In Moore v. Regents of the University of California, the Supreme Court of California held that the h...
The question of when property rights may arise in human body parts or bodily products remains contro...
If I am not a slave, nobody else owns me and I therefore must own myself. This is but philosophical ...
• Trade in human tissue in Australia is prohibited by state law, and in ethical guidelines by the Na...
Biotechnology and the Challenge of Property addresses the question of how the advancement of propert...
[Extract] Legal regulation of transactions in the human body is in one sense a new phenomenon. Tradi...
This Article examines whether property law provides an appropriate forum for determining who should ...
The human body and its parts are widely perceived as matters beyond commercial usage. This belief i...
During the past twenty years human biological materials have become increasingly important for resea...
Genetic researchers and medical practitioners often need to obtain access to stored human tissue wit...