Laws and regulations associated with ownership of human biological material in South Africa

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dc.contributor.author Mahesh, K.P.
dc.date.accessioned 2015-10-01T05:53:06Z
dc.date.available 2015-10-01T05:53:06Z
dc.date.issued 2015-05
dc.description.abstract Ownership with regard to human biological material (HBM) is addressed to some extent within South African law, specifically in chapter eight of the National Health Act (NHA) and its associated regulations. However, members of the legal fraternity struggle to conceptualise ownership of such materials without objectifying a person or people and risking reducing such individuals to a state of property. This then infers a reduction in human dignity by rendering one-self or parts of that same self as a commodity. The complexity of the issue raises much debate both legally as well as ethically. en_ZA
dc.description.librarian am2015 en_ZA
dc.description.uri http://www.sajbl.org.za en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Mahesh, KP 2015, 'Laws and regulations associated with ownership of human biological material in South Africa', South African Journal of Bioethics and Law, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 11-18. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 1999-7639
dc.identifier.other 10.7196/SAJBL.354
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50117
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher Health and Medical Publishing Group en_ZA
dc.rights © 2015 Health and Medical Publishing Group. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license. en_ZA
dc.subject Human biological material en_ZA
dc.subject National Health Act en_ZA
dc.subject South African law en_ZA
dc.subject Ownership en_ZA
dc.title Laws and regulations associated with ownership of human biological material in South Africa en_ZA
dc.type Article en_ZA


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