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Lumpy, Limited and Communitarian: In Defence of Recognising Property in the Human Body
2018
Social Science Research Network
While recognising property in the human body would have its uses, there are objections to granting such rights given the unique nature of the body. One objection is that property serves individualistic and not communitarian values and fails to capture the body's relational interdependent nature. I contest this objection as it takes an overly narrow view of property as being 'Blackstonian' in character, eliding the diversity of property institutions that actually exist. Thus, the usefulness of
doi:10.2139/ssrn.3130456
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