Exploitation, Autonomy, and the Case for Organ Sales
International Journal of Applied Philosophy 12 (1):89-95 (1998)
| Abstract | A recent argument in favor of a free market in human organs claims that such a market enhances personal autonomy. I argue here that such a market would, on the contrary, actually compromise the autonomy of those most likely to sell their organs, namely, the least well off members of society. A Marxian-inspired notion of exploitation is deployed to show how, and in what sense, this is the case | |||||||||
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