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Volume 341:132 July 8, 1999 Number 2
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Ownership of the Human Body: Philosophical considerations on the use of the human body and its parts in healthcare

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(Philosophy and Medicine. Vol. 59.) Edited by Henk A.M.J. ten Have and Jos V.M. Welie, with the collaboration of Stuart F. Spicker. 235 pp. Boston, Kluwer Academic, 1998. $120. ISBN 0-7923-5150-9.

Henk ten Have and Jos Welie have brought together an admirable collection of essays about the ways in which people have ownership rights to their bodies. Traditionally, the common law defined ownership as the rights of persons to control the use of things. According to tort law, the definition of "person" includes any part of the body and anything attached to it or practically identified with it. Violation of the person included nonconsensual contact with his or her body, clothing, cane, or objects held in the hands. As the authors of the essays in this book acknowledge, however, the concept . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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