Body Shopping

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From the Publisher: "In Body Shopping, award-winning writer Donna Dickenson makes a case against the new-found rights of businesses to harvest body parts and gain exclusive profit from the resulting products and processes. To illustrate her case, she presents a series of compelling stories of individuals injured or abused by the increasingly rapacious biotechnology industry." Body Shopping offers a fresh, international, and completely up-to-date take on the evolving legal position, the historical long view, and the latest biomedical research-an approach that goes beyond a mere recital of horror stories to suggest a range of new strategies to bring the biotechnology industry to heel. The result is a gripping, powerful book that is essential reading for everyone from parents to philosophers, and from scientists to lawmakers-everyone who believes that no human should ever be reduced to the sum of their body parts.

subjects: Biotechnology,  Moral and ethical aspects,  Human Body,  Bioethical Issues,  Etik och moral,  Bioethics,  Législation,  Cellules souches,  Bioteknik,  Transplantation d'organes,  Bioéthique,  Trafic illicite,  Biotechnologie,  Dignité humaine,  Människokroppen,  Medical ethics,  Procurement of organs, tissues,  Economic aspects,  Law and legislation