SOSC 3365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hoffmann-La Roche, Blood Plasma, Blood Type
25 Oct 2018
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Property or sphere of privacy? legal approaches to the question of what body of law applies to a person"s physical body. The property approach (most common): i own my body and should be free to do with it what i like. By extension, my heirs should be free to do with my body what they wish unless i have obliged them to do something specific through a will. Dignity approach: there are things that one can and cannot do with one"s body that are governed by the central idea that the body personifies the person as a whole and therefore must be treated with dignity. Gov. of island sold the genetic records of its entire population to a private company headed by a former harvard professor. He hoped to mine this genetic database and isolate genes causing 12 deceases. He entered into million contract with swiss pharmaceutical company hoffman-
