One effect of late capitalism--the commodification practically everything--is to knock down the Chinese walls between natural and productive realms, use a Marxist framework. Women's labour in egg extraction 'surrogate' motherhood might then be seen as what it is, which produces something value. But this does not necessarily mean that women will benefit from everything, either North or South. In newly developing biotechnologies involving stem cells, reverse is more likely, particular given...

‘I don't want to live in a world where select, privileged few are able inscribe their privilege DNA and thereby exacerbate unfair class division other social injustices. I fo...

European biomedical ethics is often contrasted to American autonomy-based approaches, and both are usually distinguished as 'Western'. But at least three 'different voices' within bioethics can be identified: the deontological codes of southern Europe (and Ireland), in which patient has a positive duty maximise his or her own health follow doctor's instructions, whilst physician constrained more by professional norms than rights; liberal, rights-based models Western Europe, retains negative...

Introduction to Second Edition - Jeanne Katz PART ONE: LIFE AND DEATH Death in Staithes David Clark Denied Philippe Ari[ac]es the News Tony Walter, Jane Littlewood and Michael Pickering The Public Invigilation of Private Emotion Approaches Hindu Sikh Communities Britain Shirley Firth Demographic Change Experience Dying Clive Seale Health Policy Services for People Their Careers Christina R Victor Sudden from Suicide Stella Ridley Dream T S Good Death? Mary Bradbury Little Henry or, God Will...

Advances in modern technology are turning our tissues, genes, and organs into 'the currency of the future'. From beauty junkies to international organ trade, Donna Dickenson reveals ingenious ways which body parts converted commodities. The true scale is immense: almost one five human genes subject a patent, everything fair game for profit-makers - from individual eggs genetic profile an entire population. This gripping book essential reading anyone concerned with ownership commercial use...

A dilemma exists when a doctor is faced with child or young person who refuses medically indicated treatment. The Gillick case has been interpreted by many to mean that of sufficient age and intelligence could validly consent refuse Recent decisions the Court Appeal on child9s refusal medical treatment have clouded issue undermined spirit decision Children Act 1989. It now patient whose competence in doubt will be found rational if he she accepts proposal treat but may incompetent disagrees....

After the development of induced pluripotent stem cells (IPSCs) in 2007, pressure to commercialize women's eggs for cell research could have been expected lessen. However, harvest human large quantities has not diminished; rather, it taken different directions, example germline mitochondrial research. Yet there little acknowledgement these technologies' need eggs, possible risks women and ethical issues concerning potential exploitation. Rather, a renewed campaign legalize payment research,...

On one view, limb transplants cross technological frontiers but not ethical ones; the only issues to be resolved concern professional competence, under assumption of patient autonomy. Given that benefits transplant do outweigh risks, however, autonomy and rationality are necessarily self-evident. In addition questions resource allocation informed consent, limb, particularly hand, allograft also raises important personal identity bodily integrity. We present two linked schemas for exploring...

Should clinicians ask women to donate or even sell their eggs for stem cell research? Enucleated ova are crucial in somatic nuclear transfer technologies, but risky women’s health. Until comparatively recently, very few commentators debated the ethical issues egg donation and sale, concentrating on embryo’s status. The unmasking of Hwang Woo Suk, who used over 2,200 his fraudulent research, has finally brought question sale into prominence. In this article we offer an international...

There is an urgent need for reconstructing models of property to make them more women-friendly. However, we not start from scratch: both 'canonical' and feminist authors can sometimes provide concepts which refine apply towards women's propertylessness. This paper looks in particular at alienation their reproductive labour, building on Marx Delphy. Developing economic political rather than a psychological reading alienation, it then considers how the refined revised concept be applied...

ABSTRACT The global value of the biotechnology industry is now estimated at 17 billion dollars, with over 1300 firms involved as year 2000. 2 It has been said that ‘What we are witnessing nothing less than a new kind gold rush, and territory body.’ As in previous rushes, prospectors flooding into unexplored ‘wide open’ territories from all world, possible ramifications for exploitation Third World populations. These also Wild West bioethics insofar law very little hold on them: existing...