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Ownership is the bundle of rights that includes allowing a person or entity to use and control an object as property. As biomedical science advances, we should consider whether human biological material should be recognized as property. Three main issues should be considered when discussing ownership of the human body and human biological material: human dignity, the conflict between participant-donor and researcher-medical professionals, and transnational research.

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  1. School of Law, Hanynag University, Seoul, South Korea

    Kyu Won Jung

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  1. Duquesne University Center for Healthcare Ethics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Henk ten Have

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Jung, K.W. (2015). Ownership. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_321-1

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