Bioequity - Property and the Human Body Nils Hoppe Ashgate 2009

B.c Van Beers

doi:10.1186/1746-5354-8-2-32

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Bioequity - Property and the Human Body Nils Hoppe Ashgate 2009

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A first possibility is assault and/or battery
He has taken something so intimate, that one could even argue that it is part of who you are. This legal solution is questionable too. It presupposes that you were the rightful owner of your hand before it was cut off
The fear is that once legal property in the body is accepted, human dignity may be compromised, and new forms of exploitation can be expected

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Introduction

A first possibility is assault and/or battery. Without your enemy’s intervention, it might have been possible surgically to reattach your hand. It is exactly towards this goal that legal scholar Nils Hoppe has devoted his book Bioequity – Property and the Human Body. The overarching argument of Hoppe’s book is that traditional legal approaches to the human body, in which property rights in one’s own body are denied, have not resulted in sufficient protection of the individual against exploitation, but have, on the contrary, given rise to it.

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