Adam Podgorecki and Vittorio Olgiati
Ashgate
Hardback
374
1996
We try to show that law and legal concepts have a powerful role to plays in regulation while at times being indistinguishable from other practices of regulation offered by accountants economists and medical scientists. To that end the collection opens with two essays on the relationship between ethics and law one centred on the concept of the tragic body in Kantian autonomy and one centred on the Lockian conception of ownership of the body as a self-referential property right. The issue of health is then explored along with issues of sexuality in three essays each offering comparative analysis on the regulation of embryo and infertility research in the United Kingdom and Denmark the treatment of HIV positive prisoners in the United Kingdom and United States and the regulation of non-consensual sterilisation in the United Kingdom and Germany. Individual evaluation of health and well-being is compared to the assessment of pain and suffering under negligence law in an essay which explains the value of subjective quality of life questionnaires.
Ashgate
Hardback
374
1996
We try to show that law and legal concepts have a powerful role to plays in regulation while at times being indistinguishable from other practices of regulation offered by accountants economists and medical scientists. To that end the collection opens with two essays on the relationship between ethics and law one centred on the concept of the tragic body in Kantian autonomy and one centred on the Lockian conception of ownership of the body as a self-referential property right. The issue of health is then explored along with issues of sexuality in three essays each offering comparative analysis on the regulation of embryo and infertility research in the United Kingdom and Denmark the treatment of HIV positive prisoners in the United Kingdom and United States and the regulation of non-consensual sterilisation in the United Kingdom and Germany. Individual evaluation of health and well-being is compared to the assessment of pain and suffering under negligence law in an essay which explains the value of subjective quality of life questionnaires.