The legal, medical and cultural regulation of the body : transformation and transgression / edited by Stephen W. Smith and Ronan Deazley.

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Ltd., c2009.

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Human body -- Law and legislation.

Human reproduction -- Law and legislation.

Human reproductive technology -- Law and legislation.

Human body -- Law and legislation.

Human body -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. Part II. 5. 6. 7. Part III. 8. 9. 10. Part IV. 11. 12. 13. 14. Regulating reproduction

Introduction to Part I

Nothing and not-nothing : law's ambivalent response to transformation and transgression at the beginning of life

Regulating reproduction : frozen embryos, consent, welfare and the equality myth

Persons and their parts : new reproductive technologies and risks of commodification

Interspecies embryos

Introduction to Part II

Legislating interspecies embryos

Humanity, divinity and interspecies embryos

Transforming the body

Introduction to Part III

Less is more : body integrity identity disorder

Medicine, governmentality and biopower in cosmetic surgery

Self-harm and self-determination

Introduction to Part IV

A duty to treat? : a legal analysis

Bursting the autonomy bubble : a defence of the court of appeal decision in R (On the application of Oliver Leslie Burke) v GMC

Liberalism and constraining choice : the cases of death and serious bodily harm.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780754677369

viii, 245 p. ; 24 cm