Property Rights and the Human Body
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2000
Editor(s)
Leonard W. Levy & Kenneth L. Karst
ISBN
0028648803
Publisher
MacMillan Reference Books
Language
en-US
Abstract
Property has been described as a "bundle of rights" consisting of the right to possess, to use, to exclude, to enjoy profits, and to dispose. When it comes to property in the human body, one sees various collections of some component rights in this bundle, though never the whole bundle. Moreover, the precise contours of these component rights are often unclear, and depend on the perspective from which one approaches the body.
Recommended Citation
Keith N. Hylton,
Property Rights and the Human Body
,
in
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, Volume 4
2057
(Leonard W. Levy & Kenneth L. Karst ed.,
2000).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/2043
