The Legal, Medical and Cultural Regulation of the Body

Contents: Preface; Introduction - being human: of liberty and privilege, Margaret Brazier; Part I Regulating Reproduction: Introduction to part I, Helen Beebee; Nothing and not-nothing: law's ambivalent response to transformation and transgression at the beginning of life, Mary Ford; Regulating reproduction:frozen embryos, consent, welfare and the equality myth, Sonia Harris-Short; Persons and their parts: new reproductive technologies and risks of commodification, Heather Widdows. Part II Interspecies Embryos: Introduction to part II, Stephen W. Smith; Legislating interspecies embryos, Marie Fox; Humanity, divinity, and interspecies embryos, Robert Song. Part III Transforming the Body: Introduction to part III, Kate Ince; Less is more: body integrity identity disorder, R.C. Smith; Medicine, governmentality and biopower in cosmetic surgery, Victoria Pitts-Taylor. Part IV Self-Harm and Self-Determination: Introduction to part IV, Colin Warbrick; A duty to treat? - a legal analysis, Mr Justice Munby; Bursting the autonomy bubble: a defence of the Court of Appeal decision in R (on the application of Oliver Leslie Burke) v GMC, Claire McIvor; Liberalism and constraining choice: the cases of death and serious bodily harm, G.R. Sullivan; Index.