Exploitation, autonomy, and the case for organ sales.
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.
Hughes
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University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA.
D030861:Capitalism; D003132:Commerce; D003148:Communism; D026689:Ethical Analysis; D018594:Human Body; D006801:Humans; D026706:Paternalism; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D011203:Poverty; D012935:Social Justice; D014019:Tissue Donors; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000191:economics*; D035862:Vulnerable Populations