Books By Britta (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) van Beers - Author

Britta van Beers is Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. As a legal philosopher she explores the notions of personhood and corporality within the regulation of biomedical technologies, such as assisted reproductive technologies, markets in human body materials and biomedical tourism. In 2011 she received the Praemium Erasmianum Research Prize for her Ph.D. dissertation on the legal relationship between persons and their bodies in the era of medical biotechnology (2009). Recent publications include the co-edited volumes Humanity in International Law and Biolaw (Cambridge, 2014) and Symbolic Legislation and Developments in Biolaw (2016). Sigrid Sterckx is a founding member of the Bioethics Institute, Ghent. Her current research projects focus on ethical and legal aspects of: human tissue research and biobanking; patenting in biomedicine and genomics; organ transplantation; medical end-of-life practices; neuroethics; and global justice. She has published more than 150 articles, book chapters and