Peter Sýkora, Urban Wiesing

Altruism Reconsidered (eBook, PDF)

Exploring New Approaches to Property in Human Tissue
Redaktion: Steinmann, Michael

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Altruism Reconsidered combines both practical and conceptual multidisciplinary perspectives, setting the standard for a detailed and innovative discussion on the regulation of research on human tissue.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317182504
• Artikelnr.: 44873357

Autorenporträt

Dr Michael Steinmann is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. Prior to this, he taught philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University and was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Tubingen, where he was involved in several projects on problems of biotechnological innovation, regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. He is the co-author of a book on standards in clinical studies. His research interests include standards of rationality and the plurality of values in bioethics. Professor Dr Peter Sÿkora holds the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Trnava. He is a member of the National Ethics Committee, Vice-Chairman of the National UNESCO Bioethics Committee in Slovakia and is included in the UNESCO Global Ethics Observatory database of ethics experts. His research interests include the conceptualization of human nature and the early human embryo, ethics of stem cell research and PGD, infanticide, ethnicity, and evolution theory. Professor Dr Urban Wiesing holds the Chair of Medical Ethics at the University of Tubingen and is Director of the Institute of Ethics and History of Medicine. Professor Wiesing is also Chairman of the Institutional Review Board of the Faculty of Medicine and deputy member of the IRB Board of Physicians of Baden-Wurttemberg. He is also Chairman of the Central Ethics Committee at the Federal Board of Physicians. His fields of research include ethical and philosophical implications of genetic screening, reproductive medicine and genetics, and research ethics.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction, Michael Steinmann; Part I Reciprocity and
Participation: Overcoming the Models of 'Gift' and 'Altruism': Altruism in
medical donations reconsidered: the reciprocity approach, Peter Sÿkora;
Notes on policy, language and human tissue, Richard Tutton. Part II
Donation in the Light of Human Embodiment: Why the body matters: the
symbolic significance of human tissue, Alastair V. Campbell; Duties towards
our bodies Michael Steinmann. Part III Towards a Richer Understanding of
Property in Ethics and Law: Property in human tissue: triangulating the
issue, Roger Brownsword; Property rights in the body - a philosophical
approach, Barbro Fröding; Reflections on entitlements in the human body
from and equity perspective, Nils Hoppe. Part IV Models of Governance:
Pitfalls and Possibilities: Using tissue and material from the human body
for biomedical research: proposals for a normative model, Christian Lenk
and Nils Hoppe; Preventing conflicts of interests 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,
Caroline Mullen and Heather Widdows. Part V The Persisting Challenges of
Regulation: Personal rights over an individual's biological sample stored
for research, Aitziber Emaldi-Cirión; Human biological materials between
civil, trade and health law: ethical, anthropological and legal
implications of conflicts of law system, Cathérine 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 regulation of
genetic material and genetic information in t