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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

This book addresses the ethical problems in maternal-fetal medicine which impact directly on clinical practice. It is divided into parts by the stages of pregnancy and looks at issues of power, new technology, 'designer babies', and cultural, religious difference. It unites analytic philosophy and actual practice for clinicians

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Personalized healthcare?or what the award-winning author Donna Dickenson calls ?Me Medicine"?is radically transforming our longstanding, ?one-size-fits-all" model. Technologies such as direct-to-consumer genetic testing, pharmacogenetics in cancer care, private umbilical cord blood banking, and neurocognitive enhancement claim to cater to an individual's specific biological character. In some cases, these technologies have shown powerful potential, yet in others, they have produced negligible or even negative results. Whatever is behind the rise of Me Medicine, it isn't just science. So w

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

For decades, the field of bioethics has shaped the way we think about ethical problems in science, technology, and medicine. But its traditional emphasis on individual interests such as doctor-patient relationships, informed consent, and personal autonomy is minimally helpful in confronting the social and political challenges posed by new human biotechnologies such as assisted reproduction, human genetic modification, and DNA forensics. Beyond Bioethics addresses these provocative issues from an emerging standpoint that is attentive to race, gender, class, disability, privacy, and notions of democracy—a ";new biopolitics."; This authoritative volume provides an overview for those grappling with the profound dilemmas posed by these developments. It brings together the work of cutting-edge thinkers from diverse fields of study and public engagement, all of them committed to this new perspective grounded in social justice and public interest values