Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives (Cambridge Law, Medicine and Ethics, Series Number 3)

New Developments In Biotechnology Radically Alter Our Relationship With Our Bodies. Body Tissues Can Now Be Used For Commercial Purposes, While External Objects, Such As Pacemakers, Can Become Part Of The Body. Property In The Body: Feminist Perspectives Transcends The Everyday Responses To Such Developments, Suggesting That What We Most Fear Is The Feminisation Of The Body. We Fear Our Bodies Are Becoming Objects Of Property, Turning Us Into Things Rather Than Persons. This Book Evaluates How Well-grounded This Fear Is, And Suggests Innovative Models Of Regulating What Has Been Called 'the New Gold Rush' In Human Tissue. This Is An Up-to-date And Wide-ranging Synthesis Of Market Developments In Body Tissue, Bringing Together Bioethics, Feminist Theory And Lessons From Countries That Have Resisted Commercialisation Of The Body, In A Theoretically Sophisticated And Practically Significant Approach.--jacket. Do We All Have 'feminised' Bodies Now? -- Property, Objectification, And Commodification -- The Lady Vanishes: What's Missing From The Stem Cell Debate -- Umbilical Cord Blood Banks: Seizing Surplus Value -- The Gender Politics Of Genetic Patenting -- Biobanks: Consent, Commercialisation, And Charitable Trusts -- The New French Resistance: Commodification Rejected? -- Tonga, The Genetic Commons And No Man's Land. Donna Dickenson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 182-199) And Index. Cover......Page 1 Half-title......Page 3 Series-title......Page 4 Title......Page 7 Copyright......Page 8 Contents......Page 9 Acknowledgements......Page 11 Preface......Page 12 1 Do We All Have ‘Feminised’ Bodies Now?......Page 17 Bodies, persons and things......Page 21 The feminised body......Page 24 Property as a bundle of rights......Page 29 Property rights, personal rights and the ‘gift relationship’......Page 33 The organisation of this book......Page 38 2 Property, Objectification and Commodification......Page 42 The objectification of women’s bodies: lessons from classical Athens......Page 48 Liberal political theory: property in the body and property in the person......Page 52 Contract, property and mutual recognition in Hegel......Page 62 Marx, Delphy and Arendt: alienation and women’s reproductive labour......Page 69 3 The Lady Vanishes: What’s Missing from the Stem Cell Debate......Page 74 What are the risks?......Page 78 Women’s property in ova: a Lockean basis......Page 83 Hegel, contract and stem cells......Page 87 Women’s alienation from their own reproductive labour......Page 89 The woman as receptacle and the limitations of contract......Page 94 4 Umbilical Cord Blood Banks: Seizing Surplus Value......Page 99 Risks and benefits......Page 102 If cord blood is property, whose is it?......Page 110 Respecting altruism, recreating the commons......Page 118 5 The Gender Politics of Genetic Patenting......Page 124 Human DNA: object or person?......Page 130 The inventive step and 'dumb' matter......Page 136 6 Biobanks: Consent, Commercialisation and Charitable Trusts......Page 141 Consent, empowerment and gift......Page 146 Do biobank participants deserve property rights? If so, which ones?......Page 149 7 The New French Resistance: Commodification Rejected?......Page 157 Commercialisation and its discontents: the CCNE as exemplar of French principles......Page 159 Patrimoine, patriarchy and protection......Page 163 Gift and altruistic donation......Page 169 Is the body the person?......Page 174 8 Tonga, the Genetic Commons and No Man’s Land......Page 178 The Tongan and Maori cases......Page 181 Communal ownership and the ‘new enclosures’: does the metaphor fit the human genome?......Page 187 9 Afterword......Page 195 Bibliography......Page 198 Index......Page 216 In response to the increasing commercialisation of the body, this book offers a wide-ranging synthesis of market developments in body tissue, together with an ethical approach to how we can deal with them and innovative models of regulating what has been called 'the new Gold Rush' in human tissue.