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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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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Henk A. M. J. Have

    1. Center for Ethics and Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, Catholic University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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  2. Jos V. M. Welie

    1. Center for Health Policy and Ethics, Creighton University, Omaha, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 59)

Part of the book sub series: European Studies in Philosophy of Medicine (ESPM)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Medicine, Ownership, and the Human Body

    1. Medicine, Ownership, and the Human Body

      • Henk A. M. J. ten Have, Jos V. M. Welie
      Pages 1-15

  3. Ownership Issues in Clinical Care and Biomedical Research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Autopsy

      • Bela Blasszauer
      Pages 19-26

    3. Defining the Functional Body and Its Parts: A Review of German Law

      • Friedrich Heubel
      Pages 27-37

    4. Why Should Remunerated Blood Donation be Unethical?

      • Hub A. E. Zwart
      Pages 39-48

    5. Biomedical Research with Human Body “Parts”

      • Wim J. M. Dekkers, Henk A. M. J. ten Have
      Pages 49-63

  4. The History and Concept of Body Ownership

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Ownership of the Human Body: Some Historical Remarks

      • Diego Gracia
      Pages 67-79

    3. The Stick, the Eye, and Ownership of the Body

      • Zbigniew Szawarski
      Pages 81-96

  5. Medical Interventions and Statutory Foundations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Ownership of the Human Body: The Dutch Context

      • Jos V. M. Welie, Henk A. M. J. ten Have
      Pages 99-114

    3. Ownership of the Human Body: Judicial and Legislative Responses in France

      • Anne Fagot-Largeault
      Pages 115-140

  6. Ownership of the Body: Theoretical Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. Libertarianism and Ownership of the Human Body

      • Kevin W. Wildes
      Pages 143-157

    3. Ownership of the Body: A Personalist Perspective

      • Paul Schotsmans
      Pages 159-172

    4. Property, Rights, and the Body: The Danish Context

      • Uffe J. Jensen
      Pages 173-185

    5. Ownership of the Human Body: Deontological Approaches

      • Franz J. Illhardt
      Pages 187-206

    6. The Utility of the Body

      • Martyn Evans
      Pages 207-226

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 227-240
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About this book

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.

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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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Ethics and Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, Catholic University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Henk A. M. J. Have

  • Center for Health Policy and Ethics, Creighton University, Omaha, USA

    Jos V. M. Welie

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ownership of the Human Body

  • Book Subtitle: Philosophical Considerations on the Use of the Human Body and its Parts in Healthcare

  • Editors: Henk A. M. J. Have, Jos V. M. Welie

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9129-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5150-4Published: 31 July 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5059-5Published: 04 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9129-4Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 240

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Ethics, Political Science, Philosophy of Medicine

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