The Law of Cryonics

ISBN-13: 9781032557908 / Twarda / 2024 / 184 str.

Camilla Della Giustina

Opis

This book draws a subtle balance between bioethics and financial regulation. While the legal topic of human preservation or cryo-conservation may be regarded as belonging to the realm of medical law, the findings presented here suggest that its potential has strong economic implications.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: the Fashionable and Freezing World of Cryonics;  2. Human Cryopreservation;  3. The Junk Side of Cryonics: the Homo Sacer;  4. Cryothanasia as an Opportunity during a Scarcity of Medical Resources;  5. From Digital Immortality to Human Immortality;  Conclusions

O autorze

Pierre de Gioia Carabellese (Ph.D. LL.M. PGCAP CMI CMgr MA JD) is Professor of Banking and Financial Law (Beijing Institute of Technology, School of Civil and Commercial Law, China) and Fellow of Advance HE (York, UK). He has been a Professor of Business Law and Regulation in Australia since 2020 (Edith Cowan University) and Professor of Law in England since 2017 (Huddersfield University, UK).He is also a Solicitor (UK), Notary Public (Edinburgh) and Avvocato (Rome). Prior to that, Pierre was Assistant/Associate Professor of Business Law at HWU (Edinburgh), and Senior Advocate at Baker&McKenzie and In-house lawyer in banks (e.g. Deutsche Bank). He has been visiting professor/scientist in numerous institutions (e.g. Complutense and Leiden). 

 

Camilla Della Giustina is a PhD candidate in Law at Campania University, Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy, and she holds a Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of Padova Law School. She has published widely on Bioethics and Regulation. In the last two years, she has been a Ph.D. visiting scholar at Heriot Watt University and Napier University (Scotland, UK). In 2023 she is visiting research fellow at Edge Hill University (England, UK). She is an Italian qualified lawyer (Avvocato) and author of 100 publications, including 5 books.