Ownership Of The Human Body: Philosophical Considerations On The Use Of The Human Body And Its Parts In Healthcare (philosophy And Medicine)

This is the first book in 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. The 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. Front Matter....Pages i-vi Medicine, Ownership, and the Human Body....Pages 1-15 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 Autopsy....Pages 19-26 Defining the Functional Body and Its Parts: A Review of German Law....Pages 27-37 Why Should Remunerated Blood Donation be Unethical?....Pages 39-48 Biomedical Research with Human Body “Parts”....Pages 49-63 Front Matter....Pages 65-65 Ownership of the Human Body: Some Historical Remarks....Pages 67-79 The Stick, the Eye, and Ownership of the Body....Pages 81-96 Front Matter....Pages 97-97 Ownership of the Human Body: The Dutch Context....Pages 99-114 Ownership of the Human Body: Judicial and Legislative Responses in France....Pages 115-140 Front Matter....Pages 141-141 Libertarianism and Ownership of the Human Body....Pages 143-157 Ownership of the Body: A Personalist Perspective....Pages 159-172 Property, Rights, and the Body: The Danish Context....Pages 173-185 Ownership of the Human Body: Deontological Approaches....Pages 187-206 The Utility of the Body....Pages 207-226 Back Matter....Pages 227-240