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Whose Body is it Anyway? - Justice and the Integrity of the Person (Hardcover, New)
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Whose Body is it Anyway? - Justice and the Integrity of the Person (Hardcover, New)
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In the prevailing liberal ethos, 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. However, we lack the right to use ourselves
as we wish in order to raise income, even though we do not
necessarily harm others by doing so--even though we might in fact
benefit them by doing so. 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 lack 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.
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