Imogen Goold
CUF Lecturer
Imogen Goold studied Law and Modern History at the University of Tasmania, Australia, receiving her PhD in 2005. Her doctoral research explored the use of property law to regulate human body parts. She also received a Masters degree in Bioethics from the University of Monash in 2005. From 1999, she was a research member of the Centre for Law and Genetics, where she published on surrogacy laws, legal constraints on access to infertility treatments and proprietary rights in human tissue. In 2002, she took up as position as a Legal Officer at the Australian Law Reform Commission, working on the inquiries into Genetic Information Privacy and Gene Patenting. After leaving the ALRC in 2004, she worked briefly at the World Health Organisation, researching the provision of genetic medical services in developing countries. She is now examining the impact of moral arguments on the regulation of IVF and also writing a book based on her work on body part ownership.
Publications
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I Goold, Flesh and Blood: Owning Our Bodies\' Parts (Hart Publishing 2013) (forthcoming)
I Goold, 'The concise argument Highlights from this issue ' (2012) 38 Journal of Medical Ethics 133
I Goold, 'Why Does It Matter How We Regulate the Use of Human Body Parts?' (2012) Journal of Medical Ethics (forthcoming)
I Goold, 'Book Review: The Right to Life and Conflicting Interests by E Wicks' (2011) 5 European Human Rights Law Review 629–631 [Review]
I Goold and Julian Savulescu, 'In Favour of Freezing Eggs for Non-Medical Reasons' (2009) 23 Bioethics 47 [...]
This article explores the social benefits and moral arguments in favour of women and couples freezing eggs and embryos for social reasons. Social IVF promotes equal participation by women in employment; it offers women more time to choose a partner; it provides better opportunities for the child as it allows couples more time to become financially stable; it may reduce the risk of genetic and chromosomal abnormality; it allows women and couples to have another child if circumstances change; it offers an option to women and children at risk of ovarian failure; it may increase the egg and embryo pool. There are strong arguments based on equal concern and respect for women which require that women have access to this new technology. Freezing eggs also avoids some of the moral objections associated with freezing embryos.
ISBN: 02699702
News
Imogen Goold wins OxTALENT prize
Imogen Goold has won an OxTALENT award for technology innovation in teaching, for her use of WebLearn tools specifically for feedback and building a learning community [more…]
Research Projects
The Human Body as Property? Possession, Control and Commodification
Interests
Teaching: Philosophy of Law; Tort; Medical Law and Ethics
Research: Reproductive medicine, history of reproductive medicine, bioethics, property
