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The human body as property
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Intellectual property rights and detached human body parts
- Correspondence to Dr Justine Pila, St Catherine's College, Oxford OX1 3UJ, UK; justine.pila{at}law.ox.ac.uk
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Intellectual property rights and detached human body parts
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- Received May 2, 2012
- Accepted June 27, 2012
- First published July 26, 2012.
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April 27, 2016
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