TITLE

Do we own our bodies?

AUTHOR(S)

Calabresi, Guido

PUB. DATE

March 1991

SOURCE

Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine;Spring91, Vol. 1 Issue 1, p5

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on court decisions concerning organ donations. Features of the case of a man who demanded that his cousin donate his bone marrow; Three issues raised by the case; Legal precedents that the court could have used on the issue of whether we really own our bodies.

ACCESSION #

9701222512

Tags: DONATION of organs, tissues, etc.

 

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