Body Lore and Laws Essays on Law and the Human Body

by Sclater, Shelley Day; Richards, Martin; Bainham

• ISBN13: 9781841131979
• ISBN10: 1841131970
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Hart Publishing

Summary

This book,the second produced by the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, is a collection of essays on the subject of law and the human body. As the title suggests, bodies and body parts are not only subject to regulation through formal legal processes, but also the meanings attached to particular bodies, and the significance accorded to some body parts, are aspects of broader cultural processes. In short, bodies are subjected to both lore and laws. The contributors, all leading academics in the fields of Law, Sociology, Psychology, Feminism, Criminology, Biology and Genetics, respectively, offer a range of interdisciplinary papers that critically examine how bodies are constructed and regulated in law. The book is divided into two parts. Part one is concerned with Making Bodies and includes papers relating to transactions in human gametes, cloning, court-ordered caesarean sections, testing for genetic risk, the patenting of human genes and the social policy implications of the growth in genetic information. Part two is concerned with Using and Abusing Bodies. It contains chapters relating to sexualities, sexual orientation and the law, sex workers and their clients, domestic homicide, religious and cultural practices and other issues involving childrens bodies, the ownership of the body and body parts and the legal and ethical issues surrounding euthanasia.

Author Biography

Andrew Bainham is a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge and University Lecturer in Law Caroline Bridge is a senior lecturer in law at the School of Law, University of Manchester Anne Bottomley is a member of the faculty of Kent Law School, University of Kent at Canterbury Belinda Brooks-Gordon is a Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at the University of Leicester Elizabeth Chapman is a Research Associate at the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge Richard Collier is Professor of Law and Social Theory at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. Rachel Cook is a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology and Field Leader in Psychology at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge Shelley Day Sclater is a Reader in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London Loraine Gelsthorpe is a Fellow of Pembroke College, University Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Director of the PhD Programme, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge Jonathan Herring is a Fellow of Exeter College and University Lecturer in Law at Oxford Julie Jessop has recently completed a PhD at the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge Martin Johnson is Professor of Reproductive Sciences and Fellow of Christ's College at the University of Cambridge Felicity Kaganas is a senior lecturer in law at Brunel University and a co-director of the Centre for the Study of Law, the Child and the Family there John Keown is Senior Lecturer in the Law and Ethics of Medicine, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge Mavis Maclean is Director of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy Derek Morgan is Professor of Health Care Law, Jurisprudence and Bioethics at Cardiff Law School Gregory Radick is a Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Sciences, Leeds University Martin Richards is Director of the Centre for Family Research and Professor of Family Research at the University of Cambridge Eileen Richardson is Executive Director of the Centre for Women Leaders and a Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge Bryan Turner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge Jane Weaver is a Research Associate at the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	ix
Introduction	1	(28)
Shelley Day Sclater
Bodies as Property: from Slavery to DNA Maps	29	(14)
Eileen Richardson
Bryan S. Turner
Giving, Selling and Sharing Bodies	43	(20)
Jonathan Herring
Discovering and Patenting Human Genes	63	(16)
Gregory Radick
Letting Go ... Parents, Professionals and the Law in Retention of Human Material after Post Mortem	79	(12)
Mavis Maclean
Male Medical Students and the Male Body	91	(14)
Martin H. Johnson
Domestic Homicide, Gender and the Expert	105	(22)
Felicity Kaganas
The Many Appearances of the Body in Feminist Scholarship	127	(22)
Anne Bottomley
Male Bodies, Family Practices	149	(22)
Richard Collier
Sexualities, Sexual Relations and the Law	171	(22)
Andrew Bainham
Hiring Bodies: Male Clients and Prostitution	193	(18)
Belinda Brooks-Gordon
Loraine Gelsthorpe
Villain, Hero or Masked Stranger: Ambivalence in Transactions with Human Gametes	211	(18)
Rachel Cook
Court-Ordered Caesarean Sections	229	(20)
Jane Weaver
Dehydrating Bodies: the Bland case, The Winterton Bill and the Importance of Intention in Evaluating End-of-Life Decision-Making	249	(16)
John Keown
Religion, Culture and the Body of the Child	265	(24)
Caroline Bridge
Future Bodies: Some History and Future Prospects for Human Genetic Selection	289	(20)
Martin Richards
Perceptions of the Body and Genetic Risk	309	(20)
Elizabeth Chapman
Science, Medicine and Ethical Change	329	(14)
Derek Morgan
Index	343