Fox M, McHale J
Department of Law, University of Manchester, UK.
Health Care Anal. 2000;8(2):83-6. doi: 10.1023/A:1009498810174.
This special volume of Health Care Analysis is dedicated to a consideration of the status of body parts and products and the role of law in regulating them. We argue that such a discussion is timely given the conflation of technological and academic concerns posed by the complex legal framework within which these issues are currently addressed and in the light of debates such as those regarding the storage of children's organs addressed by inquiries at Alder Hay and Bristol, United Kingdom. The contributors address specific legal problems which have been brought before the courts in the UK and other jurisdictions, something which we suggest is likely to occur with increasing regularity once the Human Rights Act 1998 comes into force in October 2000. The issues are also considered on a more theoretical level with papers exploring the role of concepts such as property, donation, commodification and kinship in these debates. While the volume focuses principally upon the manner in which these issues have arisen in a UK context, though with reference to certain comparative examples, the concepts discussed here are of more general application across other jurisdictions.
《医疗保健分析》这一特刊致力于探讨人体器官和产品的现状以及法律在监管它们方面所起的作用。我们认为，鉴于当前处理这些问题的复杂法律框架所引发的技术和学术问题的交织，以及诸如英国奥尔德海伊和布里斯托尔的调查所涉及的儿童器官储存等相关辩论，这样的讨论恰逢其时。撰稿人探讨了英国和其他司法管辖区法院所面临的具体法律问题，我们认为，一旦1998年《人权法案》于2000年10月生效，这种情况可能会越来越频繁地出现。这些问题也在更理论的层面上进行了探讨，相关论文探究了财产、捐赠、商品化和亲属关系等概念在这些辩论中的作用。虽然该特刊主要关注这些问题在英国背景下的出现方式，并参考了某些比较实例，但这里讨论的概念在其他司法管辖区有更广泛的适用性。
