We live in an era when all bodies are potentially 'feminised' by being rendered 'open-access' for biomedical research and clinical practice. Adopting a theoretically sophisticated and practical approach, Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives rejects the notion that the sale of bodily tissue enhances the freedom of the individual through an increase in moral agency. Combining feminist theory and bioethics, it also addresses the omissions which are inherent in policy analysis and academic debate. For example, whilst ...
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We live in an era when all bodies are potentially 'feminised' by being rendered 'open-access' for biomedical research and clinical practice. Adopting a theoretically sophisticated and practical approach, Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives rejects the notion that the sale of bodily tissue enhances the freedom of the individual through an increase in moral agency. Combining feminist theory and bioethics, it also addresses the omissions which are inherent in policy analysis and academic debate. For example, whilst women's tissue is particularly central to new biotechnologies, the requirement for female labour is largely ignored in subsequent evaluation. In its fully revised second edition, this book also considers how policies and developments vary between countries and within specific areas of biomedicine itself. Most importantly, it analyses the new and emerging technologies of this field whilst returning to the core questions and fears which are inextricably linked to the commercialisation of the body.
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Donna Dickenson in Property in the Body addresses, in a multicultural context, how the development of new biotechnologies has radically altered our relationship with our bodies. Following the insightful feminist critique initiated in Property, Women and Politics, Donna Dickenson focuses on the emerging market developments related with bodily tissues, such as in stem cell research, umbilical cord blood banks, genetic patenting, the 'harvesting' of eggs, and trafficking in kidneys, in a symbiotic analysis of theoretical ethical interpretation and applied ethics. Her feminist perspective intends to explore how body commodification in women can be applied to universal questions about the human condition - for both men and women. Both in chapters 1 and 2 Donna Dickenson exposes her theoretical framework, fundamental to understand the particular cases that the author explores throughout the rest of the book. Chapter?s 3 and 4 focus on particular cases, respectively the use of ova in stem cell research and the banking of umbilical cord blood, to develop a proper analysis of the commodification of bodily tissues as complex social relations, able to be configured in different ways. On chapter?s 5 and 6, the author looks in particular to the case of genetic information, patenting and banking, and through an analysis of property rights, she offers a practically significant approach of governance. In the last two chapters, Donna Dickenson, offers us two models of resistance to the commodification of the human body, one in the global North and one in the global south, both based on the perspective that the body is not instrumental but has intrinsic value. In sum, Property in the Body is an exceptional work of scholarly research and interpretation of actual practices. Donna Dickenson addresses on of the most pressing of bioethical issues - property in the body - and develops a thorough critique of the assumptions that allow researchers, companies and physicians to take human tissues without the recognition and respect, particularly to female donors. The author develops interdisciplinary and international incisive explorations into the issue and through the evaluation of the French case, and the paradigmatic situation in Tonga (in the global south) suggests innovative and critical models of regulating the critical issue of bodily commodification.