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Homo Economicus: Commercialization of Body Tissue in the Age of Biotechnology
Author(s) -
NELKIN DOROTHY,
ANDREWS LORI
Publication year - 1998
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 - 10.2307/3528230
Subject(s) - commercialization , homo economicus , profit (economics) , bioethics , human body , business , economics , law and economics , environmental ethics , biology , neoclassical economics , marketing , political science , law , philosophy , anatomy
The human body is becoming hot property, a resource to be “mined,” “harvested,” patented, and traded commercially for profit as well as scientific and therapeutic advances. Under the new entrepreneurial approach to the body old tensions take on new dimensions—about consent, the fair distribution of tissues and products developed from them, the individual and cultural values represented by the body, and public policy governing the use of organs and tissues.