Body, Self, and the Property Paradigm

Hastings Center Report 22 (5):34-42 (1992)
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Abstract

We not only own our bodies, we are our bodies. Can we simply alienate parts of them? Both a theology of stewardship and the principle of self‐ownership would seem to permit or even encourage us to do this.

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