Dignity and the Ownership and Use of Body Parts

Property-based models of the ownership of body parts are common. They are inadequate. They fail to deal satisfactorily with many important problems, and even when they do work, they rely on ideas that have to be derived from deeper, usually unacknowledged principles. This article proposes that the p...

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Main Author: Foster, Charles (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2014
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2014, Volume: 23, Issue: 4, Pages: 417-430
Further subjects:B Dignity
B Article 8
B body parts
B Utilitarianism
B Bayesian
B Resources
B Property
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