Biotechnology and the Challenge of Property: Property Rights in Dead Bodies, Body Parts, and Genetic Information

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 M01 1 - 367 páginas
Biotechnology and the Challenge of Property addresses the question of how the advancement of property law is capable of controlling the interests generated by the engineering of human tissues. Through a comparative consideration of non-Western societies and industrialized cultures, this book addresses the impact of modern biotechnology, and its legal accommodation on the customary conduct and traditional beliefs which shape the lives of different communities. As such, it provides an introduction to the legal regulation of the evolving uses of human tissues, and its implications for traditional knowledge, beliefs and cultures.

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Introduction
7
7
36
3
101
Exception to the Property Rule Under Ibo Customary
112
Is a Stillborn a Dead Body?
121
Impact of African Mortuary Law on Scientific and Biomedical Research
142
DNA Banks and Proprietary Interests in Biosamples and Genetic
147
Property and Traditional Knowledge
233
Bibliography
297
Index
357
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Remigius N. Nwabueze is City Solicitors' Educational Trust Lecturer in Property Law, at the University of Southampton, UK. He has published in the areas of Regulatory and Ethical Issues in Biomedical Research or Bioethics, Medical Law and Torts.

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