Imogen Goold’s Second Gresham Law Lecture, “Your Body Parts and the Law”, now available to watch online

Professor Imogen Goold, Professor of Medical Law, was appointed Visiting Gresham Professor of Medical Law in 2021.

Her second lecture of a three part series 'Your Body Parts and the Law' is now available to watch on YouTube.

In it she poses the questions - Do we own our own body parts? What can we do with them? Can we sell them and control what others do with them? People often say, “it’s my body”, but the law is much more complex. This lecture explains the law on body part ownership, tracing it from the early legal cases through the body-snatching years of the Victorian period, to the present day. Should we use the law of property to regulate human tissue?

Founded in 1597 by Sir Thomas Gresham’s will, Gresham College is London’s first institute of higher education providing free public lectures.  Founded especially for Professor Goold, the Visiting Professorship of Medical Law was created in 2021 and covers the important issues being discussed in medical law today.

Imogen's first lecture, 'Children and Consent to Medical Treatment', can be watched on YouTube.  She will deliver her third lecture 'Freezing Eggs and Delaying Fertility: Law, Ethics and Society', on 11 April 2022.