Whose body is it anyway? : justice and the integrity of the person / Cécile Fabre.

By:

Fabre, Cécile

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2006Description: xiv, 232 pISBN:

9780199289998 (alk. paper)
0199289999 (alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

344.04194 22

LOC classification:

K627 .F33 2006

Contents:

Introduction -- 1. A rights-based theory of justice -- 2. Good samaritanism -- 3. A civilian service -- 4. Confiscating cadaveric organs -- 5. Confiscating live body parts -- 6. Organ sales -- 7. Prostitution -- 8. Surrogacy contracts.

Review: "Cecile Fabre's aim in this book is to show that, according to the principles of distributive justice which inform most liberal democracies, both in practice and in theory, it should be exactly the other way around: that is, if it is true that we lacks the right to withhold access to material resources from those who need them, we also lack the right to withhold access to our body from those who need it; but we do, under some circumstances, have the right to decide how to use it in order to raise income. More specifically, she argues in favour of the confiscation of body parts and personal services, as well as of the commercialization of organs, sex, and reproductive capacities."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

"Cecile Fabre's aim in this book is to show that, according to the principles of distributive justice which inform most liberal democracies, both in practice and in theory, it should be exactly the other way around: that is, if it is true that we lacks the right to withhold access to material resources from those who need them, we also lack the right to withhold access to our body from those who need it; but we do, under some circumstances, have the right to decide how to use it in order to raise income. More specifically, she argues in favour of the confiscation of body parts and personal services, as well as of the commercialization of organs, sex, and reproductive capacities."--BOOK JACKET.

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