Bioequity - Property and the Human Body Nils Hoppe Ashgate 2009
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Do we own our bodies as legal property? Or, are our bodies rather part of who we are as a juristic person, capable of invoking legal rights and remedies under a legal system? To illustrate the complexities of this legal-philosophical puzzle, French legal historian Jean-Pierre Baud uses the following case of “jurisprudence-fiction”, a term he coined himself in his classic 1993 work L’affaire de la main volée. Une histoire juridique du corps. Imagine your hand is cut off in a freak accident. During the accident, your worst enemy happens to be present. He manages to get hold of your severed hand and throws it into the central heating boiler. It is clear that you have been seriously wronged. But how can the actions of your enemy be qualified under criminal law?
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