Altruism reconsidered exploring new approaches to property in human tissue

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Altruism in medical donations reconsidered : the reciprocity approach / Peter Sýkora -- Notes on policy, language and human tissue / Richard Tutton -- Why the body matters : the symbolic significance of human tissue / Alastair V. Campbell -- Duties towards our bodies / Michael Steinmann -- Property in human tissue : triangulating the issue / Roger Brownsword -- Property rights in the human body : a philosophical approach / Barbro Fröding -- Reflections on entitlements in the human body from an equity perspective / Nils Hoppe -- Using tissue and material from the human body for biomedical research : proposals for a normative model / Christian Lenk and Nils Hoppe -- Preventing conflicts of interest in the field of human biological materials : the 'contractual model" as an avant-garde / Christine Noiville -- The model of trust / Caroline Mullen -- Moore's law and the taxman : some theses on the regulation of property in human tissue / Jasper A. Bovenberg -- An investigation of the conception, management and regulation of tangible and intangible property in human tissue : the PropEur Project / Carolne Mullen and Heather Widdows -- Personal rights over an individual's biological sample stored for research / Aitziber Emaldi-Cirión -- Human biological materials among civil, trade and health law : ethical, anthropological and legal implications of conflicts of law system / Catherine Labrusse-Riou -- Indirect commodification of ova donation for assisted reproduction and for human cloning research : proposals for supranational regulation / Ingrid Schneider -- Accessing genetic information : anomalies arising from the regulations of genetic material and genetic information in the UK / Alison Hall -- Biobanks for research : the German National Ethics Council's opinion / Jochen Taupitz -- European regulations on human tissue and cells transplantation / Ján Koller.