Published in:
01-03-2012 | Symposium
Regulating Consent to Organ and Embryo Donation
The Legal Dimensions of the Problem
Authors:
Ngaire Naffine, Bernadette Richards
Published in:
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
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Issue 1/2012
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Abstract
As rational adults, we are free to elect what is (or is not) done to our bodies. However, this strong freedom does not extend to the borders of life. Control over the uses of our biological material is constrained and uncertain at law. Our article examines the legal condition of embryos and organs: how law conceptualises them and regulates their uses.