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Bodies for Sale: Ethics and Exploitation in the Human Body Trade explores the philosophical and practical issues raised by activities such as surrogacy and organ trafficking. Stephen Wilkinson asks what is it that makes some commercial uses of the body controversial, whether the arguments against commercial exploitation stand up, and whether legislation outlawing such practices is really justified.
In Part One Wilkinson explains and analyses some of the notoriously slippery concepts used in the body commodification debate, including exploitation, harm and consent. In Part Two he focuses on three controversial issues (the buying and selling of human kidneys, commercial surrogacy, and DNA patenting) outlining contemporary regulation and investigating both the moral issues and the arguments for legal prohibition.
Do people have a moral right to sell their kidneys, or other body parts? Is it wrong to receive money for being a surrogate mother? Can we - and should we - patent DNA? How ethical is the 'commodification' of the human body?
Bodies for Sale: Ethics and Exploitation in the Human Body Trade explores the philosophical and practical issues raised by activities such as surrogacy and organ trafficking. Stephen Wilkinson asks what is it that makes some commercial uses of the body controversial, whether the arguments against commercial exploitation stand up, and whether legislation outlawing such practices is really justified.
In Part One Wilkinson explains and analyses some of the notoriously slippery concepts used in the body commodification debate, including exploitation, harm and consent. In Part Two he focuses on three controversial issues (the buying and selling of human kidneys, commercial surrogacy, and DNA patenting) outlining contemporary regulation and investigating both the moral issues and the arguments for legal prohibition.
Combining philosophical analysis with a detailed examination of current practice, Bodies for Sale is a comprehensive introduction to the ethics of body commodification and will be of interest to students of philosophy, politics and law as well as anyone with a serious interest in healthcare ethics and policy.
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The emergence of new empirical evidence and ethical debate about
families created by assisted reproduction has called into question
the current regulatory frameworks that govern reproductive donation
in many countries. In this multidisciplinary book, social
scientists, ethicists and lawyers offer fresh perspectives on the
current challenges facing the regulation of reproductive donation
and suggest possible ways forward. They address questions such as:
what might people want to know about the circumstances of their
conception? Should we limit the number of children donors can
produce? Is it wrong to pay donors or to reward them with cut-price
fertility treatments? Is overseas surrogacy exploitative of women
from poor communities? Combining the latest empirical research with
analysis of ethics, policy and legislation, the book focuses on the
regulation of gamete and embryo donation and surrogacy at a time
when more people are considering assisted reproduction and when new
techniques and policies are underway.
To what extent should parents be allowed to use reproductive
technologies to determine the characteristics of their future
children? And is there something morally wrong with parents who
wish to do this? Choosing Tomorrow's Children provides answers to
these (and related) questions. In particular, the book looks at
issues raised by selective reproduction, the practice of choosing
between different possible future persons by selecting or
deselecting (for example) embryos, eggs, and sperm.
Wilkinson offers answers to questions including the following. Do
children have a 'right to an open future' and, if they do, what
moral constraints does this place upon selective reproduction?
Should parents be allowed to choose their future children's sex?
Should we 'screen out' as much disease and disability as possible
before birth, or would that be an objectionable form of eugenics?
Is it acceptable to create or select a future person in order to
provide lifesaving tissue for an existing relative? Is there a
moral difference between selecting to avoid disease and selecting
to produce an 'enhanced' child? Should we allow deaf parents to use
reproductive technologies to ensure that they have a deaf child?
Surgery inevitably inflicts some harm on the body. At the very
least, it damages the tissue that is cut. These harms often are
clearly outweighed by the overall benefits to the patient. However,
where the benefits do not outweigh the harms or where they do not
clearly do so, surgical interventions become morally contested.
Cutting to the Core examines a number of such surgeries, including
infant male circumcision and cutting the genitals of female
children, the separation of conjoined twins, surgical sex
assignment of intersex children and the surgical re-assignment of
transsexuals, limb and face transplantation, cosmetic surgery, and
placebo surgery. When, if ever, do the benefits of these surgeries
outweigh their costs? May a surgeon perform dangerous procedures
that are not clearly to the patient's benefit, even if the patient
consents to them? May a surgeon perform any surgery on a minor
patient if there are no clear benefits to that child? These and
other related questions are the core themes of this collection of
essays.
Surgery inevitably inflicts some harm on the body. At the very
least, it damages the tissue that is cut. These harms often are
clearly outweighed by the overall benefits to the patient. However,
where the benefits do not outweigh the harms or where they do not
clearly do so, surgical interventions become morally contested.
Cutting to the Core examines a number of such surgeries, including
infant male circumcision and cutting the genitals of female
children, the separation of conjoined twins, surgical sex
assignment of intersex children and the surgical re-assignment of
transsexuals, limb and face transplantation, cosmetic surgery, and
placebo surgery. When, if ever, do the benefits of these surgeries
outweigh their costs? May a surgeon perform dangerous procedures
that are not clearly to the patient's benefit, even if the patient
consents to them? May a surgeon perform any surgery on a minor
patient if there are no clear benefits to that child? These and
other related questions are the core themes of this collection of
essays.
The emergence of new empirical evidence and ethical debate about
families created by assisted reproduction has called into question
the current regulatory frameworks that govern reproductive donation
in many countries. In this multidisciplinary book, social
scientists, ethicists and lawyers offer fresh perspectives on the
current challenges facing the regulation of reproductive donation
and suggest possible ways forward. They address questions such as:
what might people want to know about the circumstances of their
conception? Should we limit the number of children donors can
produce? Is it wrong to pay donors or to reward them with cut-price
fertility treatments? Is overseas surrogacy exploitative of women
from poor communities? Combining the latest empirical research with
analysis of ethics, policy and legislation, the book focuses on the
regulation of gamete and embryo donation and surrogacy at a time
when more people are considering assisted reproduction and when new
techniques and policies are underway.
To what extent should parents be allowed to use reproductive
technologies to determine the characteristics of their future
children? And is there something morally wrong with parents who
wish to do this? Choosing Tomorrow's Children provides answers to
these (and related) questions. In particular, the book looks at
issues raised by selective reproduction, the practice of choosing
between different possible future persons by selecting or
deselecting (for example) embryos, eggs, and sperm. Wilkinson
offers answers to questions including the following. Do children
have a 'right to an open future' and, if they do, what moral
constraints does this place upon selective reproduction? Should
parents be allowed to choose their future children's sex? Should we
'screen out' as much disease and disability as possible before
birth, or would that be an objectionable form of eugenics? Is it
acceptable to create or select a future person in order to provide
lifesaving tissue for an existing relative? Is there a moral
difference between selecting to avoid disease and selecting to
produce an 'enhanced' child? Should we allow deaf parents to use
reproductive technologies to ensure that they have a deaf child?
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