TY - BOOK ID - 7015021 TI - Biotechnology and the challenge of property : property rights in dead bodies, body parts, and genetic information PY - 2007 SN - 9780754671688 0754671682 9781315569406 9781317174110 9781317174127 9781138271449 PB - Aldershot: Ashgate, DB - UniCat KW - Biotechnology industries KW - Genetic engineering KW - Body, Human KW - Law and legislation KW - Biotechnology KW - Cadaver. KW - Genetic Engineering KW - Human Body. KW - Human body KW - Ownership KW - Law and legislation. KW - Legislation & jurisprudence. KW - Biotechnology industries - Law and legislation KW - Genetic engineering - Law and legislation KW - Body, Human - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7015021 AB - Biotechnology and the Challenge of Property addresses the question of how the advancement of property law is capable of controlling the interests generated by the engineering of human tissues. Through a comparative consideration of non-Western societies and industrialized cultures, this book addresses the impact of modern biotechnology, and its legal accommodation on the customary conduct and traditional beliefs which shape the lives of different communities. Nwabueze provides an introduction to the legal regulation of the evolving uses of human tissues, and its implications for traditional knowledge, beliefs and cultures. ER -