Contested bodies: Property models and the commodification of human biological artefacts

Science as Culture

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 139-158

  Parry, Bronwyn ^a   Gere, Cathy ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BRAIN; COMMODIFICATION; DONOR; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE ACT 1961 (GREAT BRITAIN); INFORMATION CENTER; INFORMED CONSENT; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN TISSUE ACT 1961 (GREAT BRITAIN); PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH;

BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BRAIN; COMMODIFICATION; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSEUMS; OWNERSHIP; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 39049185468     PISSN: 09505431     EISSN: 14701189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09505430600708036     Document Type: Article

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