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- Title
Informed Consent, Body Property, and Self-Sovereignty.
- Authors
Rao, Radhika
- Abstract
The article discusses the doctrine of informed consent in medical research and the concepts of the body as property and self-sovereignty. It discusses the case of African American Henrietta Lacks and the cell line known as the HeLa line, the Havasupai Tribe and Arizona State University, and rights to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It also discusses the cases Moore v. Regents of the University of California, Greenberg v. Miami Children's Hospital, and Washington University v. Catalona.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PROPERTY rights; LACKS, Henrietta, 1920-1951; UNITED States. Constitution. 14th Amendment; HAVASUPAI (North American people); MOORE v. Regents of the University of California (Supreme Court case); MEDICAL research ethics; BIOLOGICAL products; COLLECTION &; preservation of biological specimens; INFORMED consent (Medical law); ORGAN donors; PERSONAL property; HUMAN research subjects; MEDICAL research; LAW; ETHICS
- Publication
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2016, Vol 44, Issue 3, p437
- ISSN
1073-1105
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1073110516667940