Legal, Medical and Cultural Regulation of the Body

Taylor & Francis

The regulation of the body provides an important concern in law, medical practice and culture. This comprehensive new volume explores how conceptions of self, liberalism, property and harm inform and influence contentious legal and ethical questions about what we can and cannot do to or with our own bodies. > The regulation of the body provides an important concern in law, medical practice and culture. This volume contributes to existing research in the area by encouraging experts from a range of related disciplines to consider the legal, cultural and medical ways in which we regulate the body, further exploring how conceptions of self, liberalism, property and harm inform and influence contentious legal and ethical questions about what we can and cannot do to or with our own bodies. > 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 amb.