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Body Values: The Case against Compensating for Transplant Organs
Author(s) -
JORALEMON DONALD,
COX PHIL
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3527911
Subject(s) - property (philosophy) , rest (music) , law and economics , epistemology , psychology , philosophy , sociology , medicine
Proposals to compensate families for transplantable organs are gathering momentum. These proposals assume that the body is not integral to the self—that it can be treated like property. Most people believe otherwise.