<Cue "Who's Next", side 2, "Wont get fooled again"> Townsend synth intro [dito 
dito dito dito nano dito nano dito....]

Washington University vs WJ Catalona (2005, 2008) dealt with the subject of 
research samples
which had been formally donated to the university, not with body parts excised 
during the course of
surgery that the patient wants to take home and cook or feed to their pet or
have bronzed and display on the mantle.


Actually the use of the donation form in the case of WU vs Catalona implies that
the patient had rights over the material which were then waived by the 
completion of
the form.  The issue in "Catalona" was whether or not the researcher Catalona 
could
retain some research tissue if the donor so directeed it to stay with him, or if
the university could hang onto the stuff because it was donated to the 
university.

Portuguese national law follows a Lockean interpretation of personal property 
rights
that the body parts belong to the individual and on his death the ownership 
passes to
the family.

Nevertheless physical possession is always a large practical part of a legal 
right
and it could be some difficulty wresting the material out of the clutching hands
of biomedical bureaucrats.

https://youtu.be/UDfAdHBtK_Q?t=445


E. Wayne Johnson DVM
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Terri Braud via Histonet wrote:
Sorry, E. Wayne, but in the USA, according to December 2004 JAMA The Journal of 
the American Medical Association 292(20):2500-5, recent examination of these 
issues by a US federal court resulted in a ruling that individuals do not 
retain rights of ownership or control of biological materials.  It belongs to 
the receiving laboratory.
A small collection of case law has determined that samples are controlled and 
owned not by those who contributed them but by researchers or their 
institutions. Taken together, the cases do not offer clear guidance; they are 
consistent only in their denial of a right claimed by individuals who 
contributed samples. Genet Med. 2011 Jun; 13(6): 569-575.
It is not YOUR gallbladder if you go to a hospital to have it removed. It 
becomes the property of the hospital or where ever they chose to send it.
<Cue Law and Order sound> DONG DONG
Terri L. Braud, HT(ASCP)
HNL Laboratories for Holy Redeemer Hospital
1648 Huntingdon Pike
Meadowbrook, PA 19046
Ph: 215-938-3689
Fax: 215-938-3874

6. Re: release of body parts (E. Wayne Johnson)
Message: 6
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 23:32:13 +0800
From: "E. Wayne Johnson" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Histonet] release of body parts
I will take the other side of this argument.

If you go to the Dentist and he extracts a tooth, it is the usual procedure 
that he gives it to you.
After all it is "your tooth".

Like wise, it's your gall bladder.? The legal department should understand that 
it is your personal property and the mining of it from your body gives the 
hospital no particular right to take control of it any more than they have the 
right to take control of a birthed infant.

E. Wayne Johnson DVM
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