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. Nwabueze provides an introduction to the legal regulation of the evolving uses of human tissues, and its implications for traditional knowledge, beliefs and cultures. |
Contents
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Biotechnology and the Property Jurisprudence on the Human Body | 35 |
Cultural and Ontological Contexts of Biotechnology and | 101 |
Corpse and Skeletal Remains | 115 |
Invasion of Privacy | 204 |
Unjust Enrichment | 219 |
Property and Traditional Knowledge | 233 |
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