Special Issue of Health Care Analysis: Translational Bodies-Ethical Aspects of Uses of Human Biomaterials.

The article discusses papers presented at the Wellcome Trust Strategic Programme on the Human Body: Its Scope, Limits and Future workshop in April 2014. It notes that there is a close relationship between pursuit of improvement and reinforcement of particular ethical human body norms. The article also states that the papers collectively uphold a multi-disciplinary approach to better grasp how technology, law, policy, and society are interacting to reinvent the understanding of the human body.