Chapter 4.B.2: Ownership and Control of Human Tissue

For more on Moore and the ownership and control human tissue, see See Anya E. R. Prince, Comprehensive Protection of Genetic Information: One Size Privacy or Property Models May Not Fit All, 79 Brooklyn L. Rev. 175 (2013); Elizabeth E. Joh, Reclaiming “Abandoned” DNA: The Fourth Amendment and Genetic Privacy, 100 Nw. U. L. Rev. 857 (2006); Elizabeth E. Joh, DNA Theft: Recognizing the Crime of Nonconsensual Genetic Collection and Testing, 91 B.U. L. REV. 665, 670 (2011); Specimen Science (Suzanne M. Rivera, Barbara E. Bierer, Holly Fernandez Lynch, & I. Glenn Cohen eds. 2017); Robert A. Katz, The Re-Gift of Life: Can Charity Law Prevent For-Profit Firms from Exploiting Donated Tissue and Nonprofit Tissue Banks?, 55 DePaul L. Rev. 943 (2006); Michelle Oberman, When the Truth Is Not Enough: Tissue Donation, Altruism, and the Market, 55 DePaul L. Rev. 903 (2006); Jenny Reardon & Kim TallBear, “Your DNA Is Our History” Genomics, Anthropology, and the Construction of Whiteness as Property, 53 S5 Current Anthropology S233, 238 (2012); Radhika Rao, Genes and Spleens: Property, Contract, or Privacy Rights in the Human Body?, 35 J. L. Med. & Ethics 371, 378 (2007); Debra Harry & Le’a Malia Kanehe, Assessing Tribal Sovereignty over Cultural Property: Moving Towards Protection of Genetic Material and Indigenous Knowledge, 5 Seattle J. Soc. Just. 27 (2006).