Whose Body Is It Anyway?: Justice and the Integrity of the Person

ISBN-13: 9780199289998 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 256 str.

Cecile Fabre

Opis

If there is one thing that is beyond the reach of others, it is our body in particular, and our person in general. Our legal and political tradition is such that we have the right to deny others access to our person and body, even though doing so would harm those who need personal services from us, or body parts. But are these rights as watertight as they seem? Cecile Fabre's controversial and original book teases out the unexplored implications that arguments for distributive justice have for the rights we have over ourselves, by looking at topical issues such as good Samaritanism, organ confiscation, organ sales, prostitution, and surrogate motherhood.
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Recenzje

Whose Body Is It Anyway? is an interesting and provocative work that takes the issue of organ sale and donation out of the sphere of applied ethics and into distributive justice, in which Fabre challenges many prevalent assumptions about the inviolability of bodies.