Rolling the Bones: Decisional Law, Cultural Beliefs and the Risks of Treating the Body as Property
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Leigh Rich, PhD (bio)March 21, 2007
42 minutes
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In the discipline of bioethics, how bodies and "body boundaries" are culturally constructed is critically important to understand. Determining where one body (person) ends and another begins impacts who has decision-making authority over medical and/or other health related research procedures (abortion, end-of-life care, genetic testing, living and non-living organ donation, sterilization, etc.). Learn how American society tends to draw these body boundaries, and why this is important to practice, research and community-academic partnerships.