Suchergebnisse

Introduction to personalised medicine, individual choice and the common good / Donna Dickenson, Britta van Beers and Sigrid Sterckx -- Personalised medicine and the politics of human nuclear genome transfer / Francoise Baylis and Alana Cattapan -- Stem cell derived gametes and uterus transplants : hurray for the end of third party reproduction! or not? / Heidi Mertes -- Personalising future health risk through 'biological insurance' : proliferation of private umbilical cord blood banking in India / Jyotsna Gupta -- Combating the trade in organs : why we should preserve the communal nature of organ transplantation / Kristof Van Assche -- When there is no cure : challenges for collective approaches to Alzheimer's disease / Robin Pierce -- Lost and found : relocating the individual in the age of intensified data sourcing in European healthcare / Klaus Hoeyer -- Presuming the promotion of the common good by large-scale health research : the cases of care.data 2.0 and the 100,000 genomes project in the UK / Sigrid Sterckx, Sandi Dheensa and Julian Cockbain -- My genome, my right / Stuart Hogarth, Julian Cockbain and Sigrid Sterckx -- 'The best me I can possibly be' : legal subjectivity, self-authorship and wrongful life actions in an age of 'genomic torts' / Britta van Beers -- I run, you run, we run : a philosophical approach to health and fitness apps / Marli Huijer and Christian Detweiler -- The molecularised me : psychoanalysing personalised medicine and self-tracking / Hub Zwart

"The concepts of humanity, human dignity and mankind have emerged in different contexts across international law and biolaw. This raises many different questions. What are the aims for which 'humanity' is mobilised? How do these aims affect the ensuing interpretations of this concept? What are the negative counterparts of humanity, mankind and human dignity? And what happens if a concept developed in one particular context is taken up in another? By bringing together research from international law, biolaw and legal theory, this volume answers such questions by analysing how the concepts overlap and contradict each other across the disciplines. The result is not an examination of what humanity is but rather what it does and what it brings about in a variety of contexts"--