Biotechnology and the Challenge of Property: Property Rights in Dead Bodies, Body Parts, and Genetic InformationBiotechnology 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. |
Contents
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 |
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